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plans for 
cuts in super¬ 
power forces in Europe 
that go far beyond those 
being negotiated at talks 
_ .the Warsaw Pact in 
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.->• President Bosh . tele¬ 
phoned President Gorba- 
•*. cfov yesterday morning 
- and discussed the pro¬ 
posals he was expected to 
outhne in his first State of 
the Union speech to the 
.. American nation last night. 

r^Tbe Vfenna Conventional 
Forces m Europe talk*, which 
cwdd be completed this sum¬ 
mer, would place a 275,000 
. ceiling on Soviet and Ameri- 
’■ can faces; but the President is 
new said to want “steepjsh” 
cuts that coold take the ceding 
dawn to about 200,000. 

Mrs Maigaret Thatcher was 
tali! earlier this week that the 
$e»dent attended to give a 
*" i push to conventional arms 
l Europe^ but she is 
to be banned. " 


repeatedly opposed moving 
towards a new round of 
conventioiial arms reductions 
before the existing round has 
been implemented And as 
late as yesterday morning, Mr 
Tom King, the Secretary of 
State for Defence who is in 
Washington for topdevel mee¬ 
tings, repeated longstanding 
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Europe was still unstable and 
that fundamental changes in 
Nato’s mflitaiyposture were 
p rem atu re. 

He said nothing should be 
done which undermined 
Nata Simply consummating a 
first Conventional Forces in 
Europe treaty would be a 
m$jar achievement and there 
were dangers in looking be¬ 
yond that 

- Mr Bush pe rsonall y tele¬ 
phoned Resident Gorbachov 
in Moscow yesterday morning 
and the Soviet news agency 
Tass said the two leaders 
discussed “current issues con- 
cepung the international sit¬ 
uation, mamlym Europe, and 
on dre- projects for dons 
redaction talks/* ft was the 
first rime the two leaden had - 
spoken since die Malta, 
summit.--' 

Mr James Baker, die US 
Secretary of Staley told report¬ 
ers the call “had to do with 
-some announcements the 
President will have tonight in 
his State of the Union mess¬ 
age, and beyond that I am not 
going to say anything further.” 

The administration’s acc¬ 
eleration of its plans to get 
American forces out ofEnrope 
— mdudmg the closure of 12 
foreign bases announced on 
Monday — has caught Euro¬ 
pean diplomats by surprise. 

The White House has been 
driven by two rapidly-intens¬ 
ifying pressures: the need to 
win Congressional support for 
a 1991 budget which has been 


severely criticized for rutting 
domestic programme while 
leaving defence spending 
more or less unscathed; and 
the need to shore up the 
position of Mr Gorbachov 
whose shaky position is being 
viewed with growing alarm by 

Stale Department n ffiriak 

Mr Baker is flying to Mos¬ 
cow next week for talks on 
strategic arms reductions 
which are crucial if a Start 
treaty is to be ready for signing 
in June. 

The White House said yes¬ 
terday that Mr Bush and Mr 
Gorbachov had touched brief¬ 
ly on the question of Mr 
Gorbachov’s reported inten¬ 
tion — denied by the Soviet 
leader — to give up ~the 
leadership of the Soviet Com¬ 
munist Party. 

Mr Richard Cheney, the 
American Defence Secretary, 
told reporters in Washington 



on Tuesday that the US was 
aiming for the eventual with¬ 
drawal of all Soviet troops 
from Eastern Europc once the 
present round of arms control 
talks were completed, with the 
US ret ainin g oily a modest 
presence. 

Mr Cheney, under fire for 
faffing to make deep cuts in 
the 1991 Pentagon budg 
.suggested there were huge 
savugjs to be made in the 
longer term. 

Mr Bush's proposals would 
certainly win the support of 
Senator Sam Nunn, the key 
figure on defence issues on 
Capitol Hill. At the end of last 
month, he suggested US 
forces in Europe could be 
safely reduced to between 

200,000 and 25O000. 

Serna British diplomats in 
Washington moved on Tues¬ 
day night to clarify Mrs 
Thatcher’s opposition to an 
immediate second round of 
Conventional Forces in Eur¬ 
ope talks. It was suggested that 
conventional cuts beyond 
those being negotiated in Vi¬ 
enna need not necessarily be 
discussed within the CFE 
framework- 


Gorbachov quashes 
resignation rumour 


Heart op baby 
fights for life 

The world's first heart opera¬ 
tion on an unborn baby was 
performed to prevent the al¬ 
most certain death of the child 

in the womb, surgeons have 
explained. . . 

The baby boy, Michele 
Vermilio, now aged four 
weeks, whose parents live near 
Colchester, Essex, is strolling 
for life on a ventilaior at Guy s 

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From Mary Dejevsky 
Moscow 

President Gorbachov yes¬ 
terday dismissed out of hand 
an American report that he is 
about to resign as General 
Secretary of the Soviet Com¬ 
munist Party. 

Talking to Journalists at a 
photo-call before meeting Se- 
nhor Fernando Collor de 
Mdlo, President-elect of Bra¬ 
zil, Mr Gorbachov said he was 
preparing for important de¬ 
cisions on the Soviet Union’s 
power structure. 

The Soviet leader’s em¬ 
phatic denial came as evi¬ 
dence mounted that a top- 
level debate is in progress 
ahead of next week's Cen«l 
Committee plenum abrait the 
nature and composition of 

both the Soviet party and state 
leadership. 

Mr Gorbachov told the 
journalists that Tuesday eve¬ 
ning's American Cable News 


The US dollar fell sharply 
yesterday after rumours that 
President Gorbachov was 
about to step down, but recov¬ 
ered after his denial to dose 20 
points down at $1.6805 to Die 
pound. 


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Network report that he was 
about to resign, which pur- 
prated to emanate from 
within the Politburo, was 
without foundation. 

“I have no intention of 
doing so,” he said with 
characteristic directness. “No 
one has said this and 1 
certainly didn’t make any such 
statement Any such sugges¬ 
tions are groundless.” 

In a highly unusual move, 
Tass also carried the Soviet 
leader’s denial, quoting him as 
saying: “Evidently, it is in 
someone’s interests to propa¬ 
gate such things.” Mr Gorba- 

Contmued ob page 22, col 7 


Dirty tricks In Ulster 


Thatcher: I was misled 


By Nicholas Wood and Michael Evans 


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Firemen fly in to 
tackle ferry blaze 

By Pan! Wilkinson 


The Government yesterday 
launched a second investiga¬ 
tion into the Colin Wallace 
affair after the Prime Minister 
admitted she had been person¬ 
ally misted over the existence 
of a blade propaganda opera¬ 
tion by security agencies in 
Northern Ireland in the 197(k. 

The new inquiry by the 
Ministry of Defence will in¬ 
vestigate how confidential 
papers about the dismissal of 
the former senior Army 
information officer went miss¬ 
ing and were not brought to 
the attention of ministers 
when they denied the op¬ 
eration. 

As Mr Tom King, Secretary 
of State fra Defence, prepares 
to make a Commons state- 
mesttoday, the background of 
how officials discovered the 
two documents relating to the 
Clockwork Orange propa¬ 
ganda operation emerged. 


They referred to the 
involvement of Mr Wallace in 
the secret campaign in North¬ 
ern Ireland in the early 1970’s 
and were uncovered by an 
MoD official as he searched 
through the archives for job 
appointment application re¬ 
cords. 

Previous searches in the 
archives had failed to uncover 
any reference to Mr Wallace’s 



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Parliament- 

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daimed secondary role in 
“psyops”—psychological war¬ 
fare operations because of¬ 
ficials had only g»amin<»d Mr 
Wallace’s personal file which 
charted his career as an Army 
information officer in Ulster 
from 1968 to 1975 when he 
was sacked fin - leaking a 
restricted document to a 
journalist 


When questions were raised 
in the Commons, ministers 
were briefed by officials to 
answer on the baas of the 
limited trawl through the 
records. The Prime Minister 
was one of those caught out by 
the failure to make wider 
searches. 

However it is underctood 
that officials at the MoD 
decided to carry out a wider 
investigation. 

The second document re¬ 
corded an oral description 
given to Mr Wallace of a 
covert role he would also be 
expected to play. It was this 
document which referred to 
Clockwork Orange. 

Mr Wallace has daimed 
that Ire was victimized be¬ 
cause he exposed dirty tricks 
and black propaganda cam¬ 
paigns in Ulster when security 
forces were competing for sup¬ 
remacy. 


Fire crews were flown to a fer¬ 
ry in the Irish Sea yesterday af¬ 
ter an engure room Maze left it 
drifting without power in 20ft 
waives and gale-force winds. 

Three RAF helicopters 
landed 14 fire fighters and 
equipment on the pitching 
deck of the 8,000-lonne 
Sealink ferry. Si Columba. 

Crew abandoned the prat 
engine room as smoke bil¬ 
lowed through the car deck 
and crowded public areas. 

Passengers and crew not 
engaged in firefighting were 
issued with life jackets and 
mustered at lifeboat stations. 

The fire crews controlled 
the Naze quickly. However, 
attempts to restart the star¬ 
board engine failed. After 
drifting for four hours, the 
ferry was taken under tow and 
brought to Holyhead harbour. 

AO 199 passengers and 86 
crew were reported to be 
unharmed. The St Columba 


was 10 miles west of South 
Stack, Anglesey, on a crossing 
from Dun Laoghaire, when 
the cap tain pm om a mayday. 

Three senior fire officers 
from Gwynedd, flown to the 
ferry by helicopter from RAF 


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Valley. Anglesey, called in the 
extra fire fighters when a 
second, smaller blaze was 
found in the ship’s fiumeL 

The fire brigade at Holy- 
head said: “Conditions were 
not very pleasant. It was gale- 
force, reaching force nine in 
gusts, and the ferry was going 
up and down Hire a yo-yo.” 

The coastguard at Holyhead 
said: “Tbe weather was push¬ 
ing the ship to the south-west 
away from the land, so there 
was no immediate danger of 
running aground.” 


Falkland s 
oil boom 
forecast 

By Andrew McEwen 
nfp lnmatfe 

The FaOdands could become 
“another Aberdeen” when its 
Government introduces leg¬ 
islation soon to allow oilex- 
ploration, given the right 
diplomatic smt ^ c ommer cial 
dimate, Mr David McErlain, 
chair man of the Falklands 
Islands Company, has 
predicted. 

Some industry sources be¬ 
lieve that an exploration 
boom is only a few years away. 

There has already been a 
flurry of interest from com¬ 
panies hired by the prospect 
that improved Anglo-Argent¬ 
ine relations could mai» 
exploitation viable. The Falk¬ 
land fcfawfc Company hopes 
to service oil rigs tor explora¬ 
tion firms. 

There are growing hopes 
that London ana Buenos Aires 
will decide this month to 
renew diplomatic relations. 


Moynihan set for 
new drug inquiry 


By John Goodbody, Sports News Correspondent 

Mr Colin Moynihan, the Min¬ 
ister for Sport, yesterday left 
fra New Zealand ready to set 
up a new inquiry into drug¬ 
taking in British sport, as two 
Welsh weightlifters flew home 
after positive tests for banned 



steroids at the Common¬ 
wealth Games in Auckland. 

Mr Moynihan, who is 
attending the Commonwealth 
Sprats Ministers Conference, 
is hoping to collaborate with 
Sebastian Coe in a further in¬ 
vestigation to tbe one that the 
pair conducted in 1987. The 
inquiry was being mooted 
before tbe latest incidents at 
the Commonwealth Games 
but the incidents in Auckland 


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give the investigation, which 
will largely centre on weight- 
lifting, particular importance. 

Last month, the British 
Sports Council announced an 
inquiry into wei ghtlifting , and 
yesterday the Sprats Council 
of Wales said it would in¬ 
dependently be investigating 

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Bible belt donor sues sect to get back £23,000 


By Kerry Gill 

An hotelier in the Moray Firth “Bible 
hrff* told a court yesterday how he 
bfwimK obsessed with the bebefs of a 
religious sect which talked him into 
giving up all his worldly possessions 
to achieve eternal salvation. 

Saying he fa3cd to reemveredemp- 

tion from the power of sin, MrEraest 
Andeison is now suing the sort for 

noretten £23,000 at tbe Court of 
Session in Edinburgh. . ■ 

f Mr Anderson said ffiat after becM^ 

ine attached to the doctrines of the 
Beacon Fellowship, established m the 
fishing port of Bndoe 11 ya^te 

hb books » be bmned^CT 

tire sect toU him they were "raiamc 

SwE** dg-JI- 

*as put into a “trance he uanoea 


over donations' of £23,100 to the 
fellowship. He now wants the cash 
bade. 

De tailing some of the occurrences 
while he was a follower, Mr Anderson 
told of bow Pastor James Addison, of 
the fellowship, prayed and laid his 
jumik on him speaking in a slow, 
hypnotic voice: He daimed that he 
was left in a two-day-long trance and 
acted “like an automaton" lacking 
free wilL 

He alleged that on that occasion he 
gave £9,000 to the fellowship and 
several days later, after a late-night 
prayer ami indoctrination session, he 
handed over a further £13,500 and 
later gave £600 to “someone who was 
blind”. Mr Anderson, of Roseni 
House, Edit, Grampian, alleges that 


these donations were taken by the 
members of the'fellowship from him 
by fraud and circumvention on tbe 
part of the members. He also is 
claiming that because he handed over 
money while in such a frame of mind, 
the fellowship was not entitled to keep 
the 

Lrad McOuskey said Mr Anderson 
owned an hotel in Buckie which 
included a halL The fellowship hired 
the hall on some occasions, but Mr 
Anderson agreed to sell the ball to the 
sect fra £25,000 with entry date. Lord 
McOuskey said it was daimed that a 
month ra two before the date of entry 
in 1985, representatives from the 
fellowship visited Mr Andeison and 
“pressed their religious practices on 
him”. It was said that at the time he 


suffered a manic depressive illness. 
Lord McOuskey said it was daimed 
that the sect preached that money was 
valueless and exhorted him to re¬ 
nounce all his possessions. 

Lord McOuskey said that there 
was sufficient in Mr Anderson’S 
claims to warrant evidence being 
heard. 

Last night. Pastor Addison - 
known locally as Pastor Jim — said 
from his borne in Buckie: “It is very 
sad when you are being accused of 
something which is totally wrong and 
never took place.” 

He said that as a result of tiie action, 
the church's assets had been frozen. 
“But when you read the Bible, tbe 
Apostle Paul bad much more diffi¬ 
culties than we have.” 


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Background to revelations over Operation Clockwork Orange 


Allegations reopen the case 
of Wilson ‘smear campaign’ 


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By Njgd Wm&waa* Political Staff 


The allegations nude fry Mr 
Colin Wallace of a “dirty 
tricks” campaign waged by the 
security services during 1974 
and 1975 against Mr Harold 
Wilson and other leading poli- 
tiriaos began to sur&oe in the 
left-wing press in 1986, and 
overlap, in part at least, with 
the chums of Mr Peter Wright 
in Spycatcher. 

Mr Wallace has written: 
“Information supplied by the 
CIA and the security services 
(MI5) was used to Justify a 
number of in-depth investiga¬ 
tions into Harold Wilson's 
activities and those of other 
Labour MPs/supporters to 
find out if sufficient 'hard 
evidence* oQukl be gathered to 
wreck the Labour Party’s 
chances of gaming power;.. 

“When the investigations 
fiwiwi to uncover anything of 
value, dements within the 
security service, supported by 
others m Whitehall, including 
former members aftbe Intelli¬ 
gence and Security Services, 
embarked upon a disinfor¬ 
mation campaign to achieve 
the same objective." 

It was at ibis point that 
Wallace claims that “Clock¬ 
work Orange", a covert opera¬ 
tion annwi at destabilizing 
extremist groups in which he 


was involved, was taken over 
for the purpose of smearing 
the Labour Party. It is this 
exercise to which Mr Wallace 
riaimg, as an Army informa¬ 
tion officer serving in North¬ 
ern Ireland, he was asked to 
contribute. 

Mr Wallace states tha t 
smear stories against prom¬ 
inent politicians were then 
distributed through a number 
of news agencies, many of 
them based in the United 
Shrtft fr , wanting the Informa¬ 
tion Research Department, 
North Atlantic News Agency, 
the Transwodd News, Fonim 
World Features and Preuves 



Lord Wilson: Alleged target 
of dirty tricks campaign. 


Information. The story has 
been partly corroborated by 
Dr Edward von Rothktrk of 
Transwodd, who told the 
authors Baby Penrose and 
Roger Courtier foot in 1975 he 
was offered “derogatory ma¬ 
terial" an 11 MPs — a Conser¬ 
vative, two Liberals and eight 
Labour — including Mr Har¬ 
old Wilson. 

Dr von Rothkhk became 
suspicious because money was 
never requested for the ma¬ 
terial. “They were fir more 
interested in knowing that 
their material might go out on 
the international wire 
services". 

The main smears seem to 
have surrounded the former 
Prime Minister, Mr Wilson 
(now Lord Wilson of 
Rievanh). 

Mir Wallace has listed 10 
smears he ctauns he was asked 
to spread. 

Several of the smears con¬ 
cerned Mrs Marcia Williams, 
a Wilson aide. Other smears 
said that Mr Wilson had 
refused to allow MI5 to carry 
out positive vetting of some 
members ofhis staffbecause it 
would have revealed them to 
be Communist agents; that a 
KGB cell was operating inside 
10 Downing Street; that Mr 


Wilson himself was KGB- 
controBed; that Hugh Gait- 
skeU was murdered by the 
KGB to bring Mr Wilson to 
power, that Mr Wilson’s KGB 
controller was Dick 
Vayganskas, an acquaintance 
of Lord Kagan; that senior 
Labour potitnesns were in¬ 
volved in income tax fraud; 
that more than 30 Labour 
MPs were active Communists; 

and that Mr Edward Short, the 
deputy leader of the Labour 
raty, had a secret bank 
account in Switzerland. 

A number of those are also 
duplicated in the daims of Mr 
Peter Wright 

Mr Wallace has abo pro¬ 
vided a list of MPs be says 
were on a list of targets he was 
given for “psy-ops” (psycho¬ 
logical operations). Those in¬ 
clude Dame Judith Hart, Mr 
Kevin McNamara and Mr 
Stan Thorne. 

All of them haw reported 
curious events at the time that 
Mr Wallace alleges the smear 
campaign was at its height. 

The smears Mr Wallace 
daims he was asked to dis¬ 
seminate also covered Mr 
Edward Heath and the then 
leader ofthe Liberal Party, Mr 
Jeremy Thorpe. 

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NEWS ROUNDUP 


More than 1.5m 
unlicensed TVs 

Evasion of television licences is costing each licensed viewer 
£6 a year, Sir Orve Whitmore; Permanent Secretary to the 
Home Office, told the Commons Public Accounts 
Committee last night (writes Nigel Williamson). At the end 
of1989,1.6 millian households were bcHevcd to be viewing 
television without a licence. Another 800,000 households, 
were estimated to be operating colour sets while holding a 
monochrome licence. 

There were now 19.5 million licence holders. The £5 
increase in the colour fee in April would be unnecesary if 
evasion could be stopped. MPs were told that the area with 
the highest level of evasion was Nonhem Ireland. 

Sex attacker confined 

Ted Adcock, who indecently assaulted two female members 
of staff at Durham prison where he was being held awaiting 
sentence for indecently assaulting Veromqoe Marat, a 
marathon runner, last month,was put on probation for three 
years yesterday on condition he is treated on a secure ward 
at a mental hospital. Magistrates at Bedlington, Northum¬ 
berland, were told that Adcock, a bachelor aged 58, of 
Bedfington, admitted all three assaults. 

Ford strike spreads 

The wildcat strike tv Ford craftsmen spread last night as 
workers snubbed union officials mid continued' their 
unofficial dispute in defiance of the company's 18.2 percent 
two-year wage deal (Kevin Eason writes). About 150 
maintenance men walked out at Dagenham in Essex, joining 
550 craftsmen at Halewood, Merseyside, who have been on 
strike for more than two weeks. 

Airlines seek redress 

Airlines are preparing to claim compensation through tire 
courts for losses incurred as a result of hoax bomb warnings 
or disruption to services by unruly passengers (Harvey 
Elliott writes). British Airways is deritanditg up to £30,000 
for a five-hour delay to a Geaev a-Heathrow flight when two 
passengers, stuck in a traffic, allegedly rang the airline to say 
there was a bomb on board. Britannia, who diverted a flight 
when a man became violent, are seeking £1,400. 

Police leak inquiry 

London police and the Police Complaints Authority have 
set up a leak inquiry into how BBC television received 
details of a report prepared by Northampton police critical 
of the police handling of the demonstration outside News 
International's Wapping plant three years ago (Stewart 
Tendler writes). The inquiry will be carried out by MrTrcfor 
Morris, chief constable o (Hertfordshire, who is scheduled to 
become an inspector of constabulary next month. 

More mail on Sunday 

The introduction of Sunday postal collections is to be 
speeded up, the Royal Mail said yesterday. The service is 
being introduced ahead of schedule with the aim of starting 
collections nationwide by the autumn. Collections will 
begin in Perth, Glasgow, Inverness, Aberdeen and Carlisle 
by the end of this month, and in Preston, York, Bolton, Liv¬ 
erpool, Manchester and Birmingham in March. 

£1.5m pools winner 

A plumber who earns £300 a week was yesterday presented 
with a cheque for £1.505,443, Britain's biggest pools win, by 
Jerry Hal] the model. Mr Alan Hepden, aged 35, of Witney, 
Oxfordshire, won the Lmlewoods jackpot riwnU to a 94th 
minute equalizer by Reading in their FA Cup tie against 
Newcastle on Saturday. At a reception at the Savoy HoteL 
London. Mr Hepden, who is unmarried, said: “I will be back 
at work on Monday — clients are depending on me.” 


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charge £7 a plaster 
and £2 an aspirin 


THE TIMES THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1 1990 


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swab, another £7 for a plaster 
and a third £68 for 

costing less than £?a 
r^ondisdosed yesterday/ 

. report was the result of 
by,Western Prov- 
Association (WPA1 
said some hospitals 
flavc «en adding up to 2^500 
per cent to bids in “invisible 

nJS 6 me d*cal director of the 
Bntish United Provident 
f£SQGWK>n (BupeX the coun¬ 
try** largest private beatfo- 
caie org ani z atio n^ agrees 
private hospitals “have an 
excessively high mark-op” for 
dn^ and dres&mgs. Yet it was 
f'Bupa hospital that supplied 
the £168 swab. 

The survey discovered that 
other independent hospitals 
charged almost £7 for dis- 


i 


foranaspirin,and£ 4 fora 25 p 

pa*r of surgeon's gloves. Two 
■pauebts were overcharged 
£800 for their mom *, 

Mr Julian Stain ton, manag¬ 
ing director of WPA, a Bristol- 
based medical insurance com¬ 
pany with half a million 
subscribers, said: “There is a 
fantastic disparity between 
charges^ Private hospitals can 
xhauge whatever they want; we 
think that they should be 
obliged to display a tariff” 

Mr Stain ton believes high 
srices are being charged for 
Invisibles” to keep down 
room charges. WPA cited 
jBupa figures showing that 
while the price of a room was 


By David Sapsted 

nearly two and a half times 
what it was in 1980, there had 
been a ninefold increase in the 
cost of “invisibles”. 

Mr Stain ton said he had 
. Queried the £j 68 charge for an 
item luted simply as “swab — 
any site” on a bill from the 
Bupa hospital at Roundhay 
Hall, Leeds; but could not 
establish whether it was for 
one swab or more. On the 
same £50,000 bill for a heart 
patient, swabs were also 
gauged at £42 and £1.21. 
Bupa was unable to explain 
the disparity, but said “every 
now and again errors do 
occur”. 

AMI, an American-owned 
group that recorded a £20 
roflfiqn profit last year, was 
charging £1 for cadi suture at 
one London hospital and 
£6.47 at another, the survey — 
commissioned in the wake of 
subscribers’ complaints about 
nsing premiums — said. 

“No reason is ever given for 
these discrepancies,” Mr 
Stain ton crirf. He added that 
at least 700 hospital invoices a 
day needed investigation be¬ 
cause of what appeared to be 

blatant overchar g in g 

The Independent Hospitals* 
Associa t ion, however, mid 
that while the WPA’s exam¬ 
ples were “obviously unjusti¬ 
fied and wrong” it considered 

them isolated and misleading 
Mr Tony Bynie, chief exec¬ 
utive, said: “Organizations 
such as Bupa and PPP nego¬ 
tiate their prices directly with 
independent hospitals, wink 
WPA does not It is possible 
that one or two may have 


submitted exaggerated claims 
but this is not the norm.” 

In a letter obtained by The 
Times, Dr Eric Blackadder, 
Bupa’s group medical direc¬ 
tor, says: “We have found that 
not only do private hospitals 
have an excessively high 
mark-up, sometimes 200 or 
300 per cent, but the quanti¬ 
ties are also excessive. 

“I am afraid the only thing 
we can do is to check meticu¬ 
lously a sample of hospital 
bills and query high mark-ups. 
A 100 per cent mark-up might 
be reasonable to cover the cost 
of pharmacy, administrative, 
storage and other costs, but a 
factor of five or even tenfold is 
not acceptable.” 

• The cost of the National 
Health Service is expected to 
rise by 50 per cent within 40 
years, solely because of the 
increase in the number of 
elderly people, according to a 
report published yesterday 
(Our Social Services Corres¬ 
pondent writes). 

By 2028, there are expected 
to be seven million men and 
8.6 million women over 60, 
compared with 4.8 million 
and 6.7 million in 1988. The 
biggest expanding age group is 
the over 85s, which will 
increase from 191,000 men 
and 589,000 women in 1988 to 
a projected 461,000 men and 
895,000 women by 2028. 

A model prepared by the 
Institute of Actuaries suggests 
that the cost of health care, 
now about £20 billion, would 
rise to £30 billion in 2028 for 
the same level of services at 
constant prices. 



Miss Virginia McKean her has- August. They hope to produce a K m it g A 
baud Mr BiD Travers with a drawing of edition of850 prints of the work by Gary 


George Adamson, the conservationist 
known as “father of the Hons” who was 
Bantered by poachers In Kenya last 


Hodges. The proceeds win go to a fond 
for the preservation of the Kora —vu—i 
park in Keaya which was founded by Mr 


Adamson. Miss McKeona, who starred 
as Mr Adamson** wife Joy in the film 
Bon Free, was among the speakers at a 
memorial service for Mr Adamsoe in 
London ye sterd ay. 


PORTFOLIO 


Winner 
to buy 
new car 

The winner of today's Port¬ 
folio Platinum, Mrs Mabel 
Elizabeth Rose, wffl spend 
her £2,000 prize money on a 
new car. 

“My husband is partly 
disabled, so it wonld be very 
useful to have a car with 
power steering,** Mrs Rose, 
aged 62, of Cowling near 
Keighley, West Yorkshire, 
said. “We often go oat for the 
day in tiie Yorkshire Dales 
and have holidays in Scot¬ 
land.” 

Mrs Rose and her hus¬ 
band Felix, who are both 
retired school teachers, hare 
been e nte rin g the com¬ 
petition sfece tt started. 

Charities 
gain from 
art award 

The best of stodent art is to be¬ 
nefit two charities m a £25,000 
award scheme launched at the 
Royal College of Art yesterday 
(Simon Tait writes). 

The Contemporary View 
Awards for 1990, an ex¬ 
hibition of 180 of the best 
pieces, wfll be mounted at the 
RCA next November, judged 
by a pond of art critics, 
scholars and artists. 

The works wflj then be auct¬ 
ioned Ear op to £200,000 in aid 
of the British Teenage Cancer 
Appeal and the Royal College 
of Art Student Fond by Chris- 
tie's, donating its services. 

Hie winner will receive 
£15^00, with £I<M)00 going to 
the winning college. 


Legal fight | Door opens to more operations on unborn 


Closure threat 


on Clarke 
reforms 

. By JOB Sherman 
Social Services 
• Correspondent 

' MrJCenneth Oarice, Secretary 
.of State for Health, was accos- 
ed in the High Court yesterday 
of “jumping the gun” in 
spending millions of pounds 

public money on health ser- 
vioe reforms before legislation 
%ad been introduced, 
i. A group of leading hospital 
"consultants led by Professor 
: Many Keen of Guy’s Hospital, 
is seeking a court declaration 
■that' preparatory work fix- 
setting up National Health 
Service trusts is unlawful The 
doctors are also seeking a 
court order to prevent further 
prepa rati on going ahead. 

Profe ss or Keen said yester¬ 
day that he had the backing of 
3,000 consultants who have 
pledged more than £250,000 
to fund the legal action. 

. . Already, 79 institutions 
inducting Guy’s Hospital, are 
preparing applications to set 
up trusts. The Government 
has spent £85 million in the 
current financial year and 
plans to spend a further £300 
minion from April to in¬ 
troduce key changes, such as 
self-governing hospitals. How¬ 
ever, the National Health 
Service and Community Care 
BiQ is unlikely to receive 
■Royal Assent before July, nine 
months before the April 1991 
. (tale set for its introduction. 

Mr James Goudie QC, ap¬ 
pearing for Professor Keen, 
told the court that the “first 
wave” of self-go veraing hospi¬ 
tal* would virtually be created 
by the rime the Bill became 
jaw. “The constitutional prin¬ 
ciple — legislation first, im¬ 
plementation second — will be 
turned on its head.” 
v. ; The minister and the health 
authorities were “serious ly 
m is directed” in preparing 
applications for a new status 
fix- which no legislative recog¬ 
nition yet existed, he said. The 
hearing continues today. 


By Thomson Prentice 
Science Correspondent 

Surgeons who performed the 
world’s first heart operation 
on an unborn baby said 
yesterday that they did so to 
prevent the almost certain 
death of the ririM Hi the 
womb. 

The baby boy, Michele 
VermHio, now aged four 
weeks, whose parents live near 
Colchester, Essex, u struggling 
fix- life on a ventilator at Guy’s 
Hospital; south-east London. 
His condition is so serious 
that the doctors were reluctant 
to claim that the procedure 
wasasuocess. 

However, they acknowl¬ 
edged that their work may 
open foe way to more such 
operations on the unborn, 
some of which might be 
attempted in early pregnancy. 

The bab/s father, Mr Ber¬ 
nard Vermuio, a garage owner 
and racing driver, said he had 
nothing but praise for the 
hospital team. “There was 
never any question of ethics. 
We wanted to save the baby’s 
life, that’s alL” 

The surgeons fed a tiny 
balloon, attached to as ex¬ 
tremely fine, hollow needle 
through the mother’s ab¬ 
domen, into the womb and 
into the baby’s heart, and then 
inflated it to expand an ab¬ 
normally narrow valve whidi 


was restricting blood flow.The 
mother, Mrs Ann Vennilio, 
aged 41, under a tight local 
anaesthetic, was fully 
conscious. 

The baby had been dia- 
gnozed by ultrasound scanner 



as suffering from critical aortic 
stenosis, a rare condition 
which is invariably fatal , even 
when treated in a similar 
procedure after birth. 

The operation, called in¬ 
ti tero balloon valvuloplasty. 




| Balloon catheter 
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TT?valve to aorta 






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was performed twice. It tailed 
at the first attempt, when the 
mother was 31 weeks preg¬ 
nant, because the balloon 
burst, and was tried again two 
weeks later. 

During the second attempt, 
the needle was in place for 
about 30 minutes, but there 
was no evidence that it caused 
any pain or distress to the 
baby, the doctors said. The 
diameter of the needle was one 
38,000th of an inch. 

The operation was per¬ 
formed by three specialists at 
Guy’s Hospital: Professor 
Michael Tynan, professor of 
paediatric cardiology, Mr 
Darryl Maxwell, consultant 
director of the foetal medicine 
unit, and Dr Lindsey Allan, 
consultant director of the 
perinatal cardiology unit 

“The ethical question was 
whether we should have inter¬ 
vened while the child was still 
in the womb or waited until it 
was bom," Professor Tynan 
said at a news conference. 

“We know that babies with 
this condition die in the 
womb, or soon after they are 
bom. We have not had one 
survivor.” 

Professor Tynan said he 
expected that more of the 
operations on unborn babies 
would be performed, at Guy’s 
or elsewhere “when all the 
circumstances are appro¬ 
priate.” Ideally, the procedure 


should be carried out at an 
earlier stage of pregnancy, 
perhaps at about 20 or 24 
weeks, because the condition 
could be irreparable at a later 


“There is nothing to step 
more interventions of this 
kind, but we believe they 
Should only be nwrfnrtaken 
when the only alternative 
appear* to be virtually certain 
death fix- the baby, and we 
have a dear objective whidi 
we fed we can achieve,” he 
said. 

“We have to go very slowly, 
in a humane way, mating sure 
that parents are aware of 
everything. We have a respon¬ 
sibility not just to be able to do 
things tike this, but to know 
whether we should do them. 
Sometimes we may have to 
say na” 

Mrs Vennilio, in an inter¬ 
view with a local newspaper, 
said: “It is like a living 
nightmare. It would be fantas¬ 
tic if we knew for sure he was 
going to survive; But only 
time win tdL” 

Other types of operation of 
unborn babies have been per¬ 
formed, notably in San Fran¬ 
cisco last year where surgeons 
removed a 24-week foetus 
from the womb for an hour to 
repair a ruptured di ap hrag m ■ 
which was restricting die dev¬ 
elopment of its lungs. The 
baby survived. 1 


Need for vets may 
save two schools 

By Sam KQey, Higher Education Reporter 


Commons secretaries seek pay rises up to 100% 


Tim Jones 
mneuf Affeirs 


House of Commons secretari es are 
rffawmiF-g salary increases of op to 
100 per cent to help them to cope with 
the cost of firing in London and die 
strain of working in c ondftioiM which, 
they say, would be condemned in 
industry. 

Launching thdr campaign, the Sec¬ 
retaries and A ssi st an ts Council say 
they beKere their salaries should not 
be left to the genero sit y of the MFS 
who employ them. A confidential 


surrey of 380 secretaries showed pay 
scales varying from £7,000 to £22300. 

They riarm that the present system 
is open to abase and could enable some 
MPS to use part of their £25^000 

secretarial and office parliamentary 

allowance to boost their own £26,701 
salaries by paying non-working mem¬ 
bers of thefr families. 

The sravey found 17 per cent earn 
less than £10,000 a year, nearly 20 per 
cent from £10,000 to £12^)00, 28 per 
emit up to £14,000,24 per cent up to 
£16JM0 and 11 per cent more than 
£16^)00, although most of foe highest 
paid worked fix more than one MP. 


Miss Victoria Leach, the coonriTs 
chairwoman, who works as a personal 
assistant to Mrs Maria Fyfe, Labour 
MP for Glasgow, Mary hill, said the 
pay of parliamentary secretaries was 
meant to be finked to senior sec¬ 
retaries ia the Civil Service earning 
£15,953 a year. “At present we have a 
complete lack of employment rights 
and we need a structure to ensure fair 
pay,” she said. 

• The £7 biffine a year advert isi ng 
industry is riddle d with sexism and 
many agencies are unwittingly break¬ 
ing sex discriminate laws, according 

to a report published by the Institute 


of Practitioners ia Advertising (Rich¬ 
ard Evans writes). 

Women exearires are encouraged 
to dress provocatively for cu sto m er s, 
some have been taken off a cc ou n t s 
after refusin g stomal advances by 
dients and others regnkuiy face more 
snbtle forms of dm c rimin a li on, prej¬ 
udice and chauvinism, the report said. 
Bm chief executives most advertis¬ 
ing agencies genuinely believe their 
companies are meritocratic and fair to 
women employees, according to 
Women ia Advert isin g, prep a red for 
foe institute by Marilyn Baxter of 

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Plans to dose Glasgow and 
Cambridge veterinary schools 
are certain to be shelved after 
the publication ofa report of a 
government investigation 
whidi says that the need for 
vets is substantially greater 
than earlier esimates. 

The latest report, by a 
committee under the 
chai rmanshi p of Dr Ewan 
Page, vice-chancellor of Read¬ 
ing University, says that 
rather than restrict the num¬ 
ber of vets bong trained in 
Briain to 335, universities 
should produce a core of at 
least 400. 

The six veterinary schools— 
Cambridge, Glasgow, Bristol, 
Liverpool, Edinburgh and the 
Royal Veterinary College — 
should impose an annual fee 
surcharge of £500 for each 
student if they want to recruit 
more than 400 undeigradautes 
a year between them, the 
report says. 

If a school had a core intake 
of 65 students it could expand 
its admissions by 5 if it 
charged all students £500 a 
year e ach . Funds for this 
surcharge could come from 
special government loans, or 
sponsorship from veterinary 
practices and pharmaceutical 
companies. 

Sir William Eraser, prin¬ 
cipal of Glasgow University, 
said be looked forward to an 
early decision from the 
U niver sities Funding Council 
(UFQ. “1 would also like to 
see an explanation as to why 
vet students should be singled 
out for special fee-sur¬ 
charges,” he said. 

Mr John MacGregor, Sec¬ 
retary of State for Education 
and Science, welcomed the 
report’s finding s Significantly 
he said that except in unusual 
circumstances the Govern¬ 
ment would no longer take 


part in manpower reviews. 
That means that when the 
UFC considers the Page report 
h will be hard to insist that the 
two veterinary schools close, 
as recommended last year by 
the Riley report into vet¬ 
erinary education. 

Professor Lawson Soulsby, 
head of the Cambridge vet¬ 
erinary school, said that al¬ 
though admissions were re¬ 
stricted to no more than 50 
students a year the school 
could admit 65 with no addi¬ 
tional expenditure. 

“Since we need more vets 
not fewer the logical thing 
would be to leave the six 
schools in place rather than 
spend money on dosing down 
two and expanding the other 
four ” he said. 

Although the number of 
veterinary students admitted 

i Vet students 
should be charged 
£500 each per year 9 

to universities is almost cer¬ 
tain to increase, Professor 
Soulsby said it would be no 
easier for sixth formers to get 
in. 

The review of veterinary 
manpower and education, 
commissioned by foe Depart¬ 
ment of Education and Sci¬ 
ence and the Ministry of 
Agriculture, Fisheries and 
Fbod, contains projections of 
the supply and demand of 
veterinary manpower to the 
end of the century, and finds it 
likely that there will be a 
significant shortfall in the 
number Britain needs. In the 
short term increased numbers 
of qualified overseas vets 
could help to fill the gap. 
Review of Veterinary Manpower 
and Education (MA FF P ublic*- 
tions, London SE99 7TP. £5). 


7TP. £5). 


Judgement reserved 
In wrong-horse case 



1 High Court judge in London 
esterday reserved judgement 

2 the case of Fondu, the 
6,060-guinea racehorse 
rhich never won a race. 

The horse’s owners, Mr 
hotnas Naughton ami Mr 
lucent Kilkenny, had high 
opes when they bought the 
oft at Newmarket in 1981. 
fowever, they later dtswv- 
ned a mix-up at a stud ara 
ad tatiyri them to buy foe 

imqg pnfmslj WhOSC value 

fl to only £1,500. 

By that time Fondu had 
iw fayf as an also-ran in all 
issix races. 

Mr Naughton and Mr lui- 
ssmy are string for damages 
ter foe High Court rated 
ey. were were entitled to 
anpensation. 

Mr Adrian Maxwell, foe 
en’s former trainer, told foe 
nut yesterday bpw no ™ 
traced by a foal out or me 
are Habanna, sired by Habt- 

t — both successful racers- 
d had recommended ure 

wrfeatp* He said the mare 


was more important than the 
stallion in breeding 
racehorses. 

However Fondu had as¬ 
sumed the wrong identity 
because of a mix-up at the 
Airfie Stud in Airtie, Lucan, 
Co Dubtifl. 

As a result, foe colt was 
wrongly described at Tatter- 
sails Premier Yearling Sales in 
Newmarket on September 30, 

1981. w w 

He turned out to be a colt 
out of an unraced mare, Moon 
Min, sired by an un- 
feshionaWe sttlhon. Fust 

Landing . . 

Mr Naughton of Pickwick 
Place, Harrrow-on-the-Hill, 
north-west London, and Mr 
Kilke nny of Manor House, 
r W elling ton. Oxford, are su¬ 
ing Mr Gay O’Callagfaao, who 

sold the colt- 

But both Mr O’Callagban of 
Old Town House, Snaa- 
baBymore, Malk^. Co Cork, 
and foe Airlie Stud dispute 
how much compensation is 
owed. 


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THE TIMES THURSDAY FEBRUARY 11990 


Owen urges withdrawal of American forces from Germany 


By Phffip Webster 
Chief Political Conespoodcat 

Dr David Owen called on Nato yes¬ 
terday to announce &at American forces 
will be withdrawn from a united 
Germany while remaining at a reduced 
level elsewhere in Europe. 

Dr Owen, the Social Democrat leader, 
predicted that; although the constitu¬ 
tional process would take longer. East 
and West Germany would be mated by 
the end of the year because of economic 
realities and the will of the people. 

He said the West should encourage a 
united Germany either to be in Nato or 
the Western European Union and not to 
accept neutrality as the price far union. 


To that end, Nato should redefine the 
United States* role and forestall poten¬ 
tial Soviet resentment by announcing 
that were Germany to be united by the 
of its Nato would not 

seek to deploy forces from countries 
outside Europe on German soft. 

That would not be a gr een light for 
Britain, Bn^pmn and The Nethe rlands to 
withdraw their forces, although some 
reductions could mate sense. 

Dr Owen, the former Labour foreign 
secretary, was speaking to toe Royal 
United Institute for Defence Studies an a 
political and strategic perspective of 
Western Europe's security si tu a t ion in. 
the wake of changes in toe Warsaw Pact, 
which he admitted ran counter to toe 


Defers vision of a federal Europe. In 
remarks that increased toe distance 
between Dr Owen and toe Liberal 
Democrats, and took him closer to the 
Conservative position, he said a diverse 
aadphnatiri Europe that worked for 
progressive union while respe c tin g na¬ 
tionhood would mate a lasting contribu¬ 
tion to interna dona! peace. 

The Government was driving Britain 
further apart from is partners* be said. 

Dr Owen added that a decision not to 
deploy American or Canadian forces on. 
German seal should be a vohmtaiy one 
taten by Nato alone as a contribution to 
toe stable, pr og res si ve development of 
Europe. He predicted that within five 
yean the US military p resenc e in Europe 


would be reduced by two thirds to 
IQO^XX) personnel, but itwas strongly in 
Europe’s interest that it remained. 

It had always been a Soviet objective 
to have a neutral Germany and no 
American forces in Europe. Western 
Europe could never concede to the 
Soviets that that the stationing of Soviet 
forces in central Europe was equivalent 
to American forces in Western Europe. 

“We are entitled in Western Europe to 
bridge the Atlantic ifwe so wish. There is 
no equivalent ocean dividing the USSR 
from the rest of Europe," he said. 

However, he said it would be under¬ 
standably rese nte d by the Soviet Union 
if a united Germany were to ask for the 
stationing of American troops on its 


territory while it was withdrawing its 
forces at tire request of fellow Warsaw 
Pact members. 

He said there was no strategic logic 
that said that a united Germany without 
American should also be decoupled from 
the Nato or WEU nuclear deterrence 
strategy. 

As long as the Soviets remained a nuc¬ 
lear power, there was every argument for 
Ranee and Britain to retain nuclear wea- 
pans. A united Germany in Nato would 
rdy on midear and conventional deter¬ 
rence. As a WEU member, it would be 
ahle to ask France and Britain lo deploy 
nuclear-carrying aircraft from German 
airfields- Dr Owen also suggested that 
Britain put cm hold the development of 


toe g e»t generation of battle lank and 
anti-tank syst em s . He said that Nato 
would have to look more ruthlessly at 


Dr Oweq said that while his perspec¬ 
tives ran counter to the Defers vision, 
they would contribute to deeper Euro¬ 
pean unity. Nato had shown that on na¬ 
tional security an integrated co mmand 
structure could be developed while 
maintaining a sense of nationhood. 

Mr Paddy Ashdown, the Liberal 

Democrat leader, accused Mrs Margaret 
Thatcher yesterday of “clinging, to toe 
apron strings of the Atlantic relation s hip 
and missing the opportunities of the new 
Europe”. 

Leading article, page 13 


Start of new service I Veteran teddy bears await a good home 

lowered prosecution 
standards, Bar says 

By Frances Gibb, Legal Affairs Correspondent 


The standard of prosecutions 
has deteriorated markedly 
since toe start of the Grown 
Prosecution Service three 
years ago, toe Criminal Bar 
Association said yesterday. 

In evidence to the Home 
Affairs Committee, which is 
investigating toe service, the 


for greater independence from 
the police was growing. 


Law Society says that the 
general view is that the GPS*s 


Even so, toe problems of own core of cxperiroced p ros* 
the service werte still exten- eoitors was providing “an 


sive. Nearly 95 per cent of 
barristers polled answered 
unfavourably as to whether 


cent of excellent level of r epres e nta- 

oswered tfon at court**. 

whether There was evidence that 


the standard of preparation of certam tribunals “remain hos- 


association said that a poll of tifieda list of problems: failure 
its membera in the South-east, to spot evidential problems; 
particularly London, found “embarrassing" applications 
that the “system is agnifi- for adjournments; failure to 
candy less efficient than it act cm counsel's written ad- 
was”. vice; poor drafting of indict- 

In a separate submission, mems. 
however, the Law Society It was a commonly held 


le to the in- 
the CPS”, it 


cases had fallen and inden- tile in principle to the ra¬ 
tified a list of problems: failure traduction of the CPS”, it 
to spot evidential problems; says. 

“wwharmnn^ applications “ Su ch unj us tified intd- 
fbr adjournments; failure to emw«»j )| inniif not reflec t upon 
act on counsel's written ad- the steadily improving i e p ut- 
vice; poor drafting of indict- ation of crown prosec uto rs 


praises the achievements of view, the association says, 
the service although it does that Crown Prosec u tion Ser- 


cri ticize some aspects. It says vice (CPS) staff were so in- 
toe CPS* own axe of pros- experienced that real prob- 


ments. foron ah oBl the c «w><i y ,** 

It was a commonly held The Law Society says, how- 
view, the association says, ever, that there are problems 
that Crown Prosecution Ser- over the pro vision by p ol ice of 
vice (CPS) staff were so in- adequate papers on for 


ecutors is providing “an ex¬ 
cellent level of representation 
in court” 

Nevertheless, toe Cr iminal 
Bar Association says that it is 
banisters who “are at toe 
sharp end of presenting the 
prosecution case in court”. 

They “are in toe best pos¬ 
ition to know what omissions 
and errors they succeed in 

disguising pn addition tO 


tens were inevitable. 

It was also commonly held 
that deterioration in prosecut¬ 
ing standards “is most notice- 


cases to be presented at court 
Despite improvements, 
there were still pockets of 
inefficiency where there was 
inadequate advance informa- 


able in toe largest bracket of tion or committal papers not 
prosecutions — what might served on time. 


sharp end of presenting the loosely be called *the lower 
prosecution case in court”. end* ”. 

They “are in the best pos- There was a belief; the 
ition to know what omissions association says, that a less 
and errors they succeed in gloomy view would have 
disguising (in addition to come from outside London 
those which surface) and how about the CPS in the regions. 


narrowly zeal disasters are 
sometimes avoided”. 

The opinions of barristers 


The banisters also took toe 
view that there had been a 
change in the way their role 


surveyed are “most disturbing was regarded, with an 
not merely in their content but “overwhelming view” that 
in the extent to which they are counsel was no longer free to 
so widely held”, the assod- exercise his discretion over 


ation says. 

“Of the options given, all 
barring a small fraction settled 
for ‘worse’ than before 1985. 


the conduct of the case. 

The most prevalent prob¬ 
lems resistance to 


• A stipendiary magistrate 
has criticized both the police 
and the Crown Prosecution 
Sendee. 

Mr Derrick Fairdough, 
stipendiary magistrate for 
Manchester and a Recorder at 
Liverpool Grown Court, said 
yesterday: “Between them toe 
police and CPS cannot ensure 
that antecedents are updated 
as a matter of routine:” 

In the new edition of toe 
CPS Journal, Mr Fairdough 
says: “Hurried telephone in¬ 
quiries to police headquarters 
do not necessarily produce the 



MoD to be Servant’s kilt fetches £10,000 

sued over The scarlet plaid lcilt, tartan i1 firm over the past five years. 


bomb test 


counsel's view oftoe merits of deared information.” 


The fraction settled for *no a particular case in terms of a Mr Fairdough says he was 
different’”. “local policy” adopted in ida- promised up-to-date ante- 

Banisters welcomed the tion to some land of offence or cedents when a new computer 
thinking behind toe Crown method of disposal was introduced at Man- 

Prosecution Service, however. In separate evidence, toe Chester, but records were still 
and did say that a reputation criminal law committee of the missing from antecedents. 

Compensation changes will 
rule out 9,000 crime vic tims 


different*”. “local policy” adopted in ida- 

Barristers welcomed the tion to some kind of offence or 
thinking behind toe Crown method of disposal 
Prosecution Service, however. In separate evid 

and did say that a reputation criminal law commi 


At least 9,000 victims of such 
crimes as mugging or ag¬ 
gravated burglary will be de- 


By Quentin Cowdry, Home Affairs Correspondent 

s of such payouts made in 1988-89 were Recent a 
; or ag- under £800. • A Sect 

IQ be de- Miss Helm Reeves, the eran wi 


pnved of compensation this charity’s director, said restiict- 
year because of a “stzcamlin- mg eligibility to the scheme 
mg” of toe. government- would public con- 

funded Criminal Injuries fideoce in it and do nothing to 
Compensation Scheme, it improve efficiency, 
emerged yesterday. The move, she added, was 

Under the revised scheme, particularly r e gr ettable as 
due to come into effect today, many of toe “lower limit” 
the minim um limit . for rifling related to thefts, street 
compensation will be ra i sed robberies and mugg in g* — 

reen men /-wi -_ i - . "" ^ 


from £550 to £750. Other crimes which were often not 


changes, though, will permit 
claims from victims pre¬ 
viously excluded, such as train 
drivers who sniffer shock after 
railway suicides and un- 


Recezxt examples included: 

• A Second World War vet¬ 
eran who received severe 
bruising after being thrown 
from his wheelchair by a 
burglar who held a cushion 
over his face in an apparent 
attempt to smother him (£600 
compensation); 

• Six women social dub 
workers held hostage at 
knifepoint during an armed 
robbery (£650 each); 

• Young man slashed across 


By Kerry GBI 

A former Royal Air Force 

1 fflwrfrician, who SCTVCd OH 

Christmas Island dnring nuc¬ 
lear tests in 1957, is to sue the 
Ministry of Defence after 
contracting leukaemia. 

Mr John Hall, aged 51, who 
spent four months on the 
Pacific island, believes his 
recently diagnosed condition 
is a direct result of being 
exposed to radiation during 
the tests. 

His case is to be handled by 
Mr Mark Mildred, the lawyer 
involved in legal proceedings 
over the Zeebrugge and King's 
Cross disasters. The costs will 
be met by toe British Nuclear 
Test Veterans' Association. 

Details of Mr HalTs action 
and the association’s struggle 
to get compensation for vic¬ 
tims are to be disclosed at a 
press conference in the House 
of Commons today. 

The association has cam¬ 
paigned to make the Govern¬ 
ment recognize that its 
members were affected by 
exposure to radiation during 
nuclear tests in toe late 1950s. 


The scarlet plaid ldlt, tartan IkS^^^F-jgWi j) 
underpants and stockings 

once worn by Queen Vic- V 1-.-.. “T 

toria’s faithful if notoriously w Sarah Jane Cbeckland 
charmless servant John Art Market 

Brown sold for £10,120 at Correspondent 
Sotheby’s, London, yesterday. 

They were bought by three herited the clothes from his 


znen wearing similar Highland 
dress and representing the 


Scottish Tartan Museum at! contents. 


father, a bagpipe-maker who 
had been given the pick of toe 


Comrie, Tayside. 


A crucified Marilyn Monroe 


After watching toe sale of is on offer at Art 90, the 
over*300 .teddy bears, dolls contemporary art fair that 
and toys, their representative, opened at the Business Design 
the magnificently bearded Dr Centre in Islington, north 
Gordon Teall of Teattah, took London, yesterday. Splayed 
bidding to £3,000 above the on a background of red satin. 


upper estimate. 

The most intriguing gar¬ 
ment was Mr Brown’s under¬ 
pants, equipped with special 
back-flap and front fly. Dr 
Teall sai± “Queen Victoria 
insisted that anyone who 
worked for her and wore a kilt 
should wear underpants. She 


and costing £2^00, she is a 
sculpture by Saskia de Boer, 
and a highlight at the Nicholas 
Treadwdl Gallery stand. 

Other attractions at the fair, 
which brings together the 
work of more than 200 artists, 
include bold la n dsca p e paint- 


firm over the past five years. 
Mr Phil Collins, the compa¬ 
ny's collector, said: “It is an 
alternative to toe Saatchi ap¬ 
proach. You don’t have to 
spend a lot of money if you 
trust your judgement." 

Prices at the fair are mainly 
between £50 to £1,500, al¬ 
though a Francis Bacon wiQ 
cost £40,000. . 

Christie’s auctioned a selec¬ 
tion of British decorative aits 
from the 1980s. 

Top mice was £6,050 for a 
glass and forged iron console 
table by Danny Laine. An 
elegant welded sled “spine” 
chair by Andre du Breufl 
fetched £1,320, while a pair of 
candelabra forged from brass 
pipes and glass bottles 1^ Tim 
Shaw sold for £2,090. 

Sotheby's recorded a world 
record for Miles Birket Foster, 
the Victorian painter. His 


Stuntman 

awarded 



was very Particular because it £400 to £1,200, and large 
can be very embarrassing abstracts by Gail Dickerson, 


mgs by David Mac&riane, at “The Swing”, showing di3d- 
£400 to £1,200, and large ren playing on a tree, sold 


when someone wearing a ldlt 
sits down.” 

After Brown’s death in the 
1920s, a trunk of highland 
dress was sent from Balmoral 
Castle to Edinburgh, with 
instructions that it should be 
disposed of but not by auc¬ 
tion. Yesterday’s vendor ra¬ 


the young Royal College of Art 
graduate who has been chosen 


anonymously for £41,800 (es¬ 
timate £15,000 to £25,000). 
Bonhams dispersed the con- 


as the “Young Artist in Fo- tents of the studio of toe 


i 


cus. 

To encourage corporate 
buyers, toe fair includes a 
view of the Coopers & Ly- 
brand Deloitte collection, 
compiled by toe accountancy 


eccentric British artist Betty 
Swanwick with great success. 
Her “Women preparing for a 
Banquet” fetched £8,250, 
while her “Leda and the 
Swan” went for £3,520. 


cleared up and caused wide- the face with a broken glass in 


spread public fear and anger. 

Sire added: “Compensation 
is an important way of 
acknowledging that such 


married peopte whose part- crime is not acceptable. The 
ners are kitted in violent gesture is as important as toe 


crime. 

The Home Office, which 
announced toe changes in 
December, believes the moves 
will help to solve chronic 
delays in processing claims 
and concentrate reso ur ces on 
the most deserving cases. 
Some 96,000 cases are 
outstanding, a backlog of over 
two years' work. 

The charity Victim Support, 
which strongly opposes toe 
increase in the lower limit, 
said about one in three of 
those now eligibile for 
compensation will be 
excluded. 

That was confirmed by the 
Criminal Injuries Comp¬ 
ensation Board, toe scheme's 
administrator, which said that 
37 per cent of toe 38,830 


value oftoe money involved.” 

The charity said some of toe 
smallest payouts involved 
surprisingly vicious incidents. 



Mr Sheermam “Change will 
encourage inflated chums.” 


an unprovoked attack in a 
nightclub (£650). 

Mr Barry Sheerman, a Lab¬ 
our borne affairs spokesman, 
said the Government should 
have cut the payment thresh¬ 
old not increased it. 

The change also encouraged 
victims to submit inflated 
claims. “It’s disgraceful. In the 
name of efficiency the Gov- 1 
eminent has squeezed out a 
large number of potential 
claimants.” 

He added: “This comes on 
top of changes introduced a 
few years ago which mean that 
victims who are unemployed 
have their benefits cut if they 
get compensation.” 

The scheme’s other 
changes, described as a 
streamlining by Mr David 
Waddington, the Home Sec¬ 
retary, will allow the board's 
junior staff to deal with claims 
which are obviously ineligible 
and will restrict toe number of 
cases refe rred to oral hearings. 


Convictions prompt call for UDA ban 


There were renewed calls 
yesterday for toe “loyalist” 
paramilitary Ulster Defence 
Association to be banned after 
toe jailiire of four of its 
members for up to 10 years on 
charges of blackmailing and 
extortion. 

Dr Brian F e en ey, the North 
Belfast Social Democratic and 
Labour councillor, said toe 
failure of toe Government to 


By Edward Gorman, Irish Affairs Correspondent 
that it did not represent a security, was not prepared to 


criminal organization. 

“The UDA is a criminal 
conspiracy,” he said, “and any 
minister who has got any 
integrity should ban iL” Dr 
Feeney said that toe argument 
by the Northern Ireland Office 
that banning the UDA would 


discuss Dr Feeney's remarks. 
His office said the Govern- 


Andy Aiken of Fourtoriver 
Way and John Campbell of 
Denmark Street were each 1 


simply drive it underground come after the jailing, by 
also applied to the Provisional Belfast Crown Court, of four 


IRA, which, by that logic. 


outlaw the UDA gave the im- should also be legalized. 


mem deplored criminal activ- jailed for eight years, 
ity of whatever sort and The four men had pleaded 
reiterated that proscription of guilty to a total of 60 offences 
toe UDA was constantly committed between May 1983 
under review. and December 1988. 

Dr Feeney’s comments Their activities had been 
come after toe jailing, by monitored by the RUCs anti- 
Belfast Crown Court, of four racketeering squad during a 
senior UDA men, including three-year operation. 






















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pression that crimes by “loyal¬ 
ists” were in some way less 
reprehensible than crimes by 
nationalists. 

He said he was determined 
to persuade the Northern Ire¬ 
land Office of what he called 
toe “cowardice” of its position 
on the UDA, which amounted 
to an acceptance of toe 
organization's public front 


The UDA has never been 
banned since its foundation in 
1971, in spite of its having 
been organized on military 


lines and its members’having year period. 


the organization's command¬ 
er is south Belfast, after the 
men admitted blackmailing 
two Ulster building firms for 
nearly £40,000 over a five- 


oflen incurred sentences for 
terrorist offences, including 
sectarian murder. 


John McDonald of Locks- 
ley Park, the south Belfast 
commander, and David 


Mr John Cope, Minister of “Arty” Fee of Chief Street in 
State at the Northern Ireland toe Shankill Road, each re- 

Office with responsibility for ceived 10-year sentences. 


• The Director of Public 
Prosecutions in Northern Ire¬ 
land is to be sent a file on toe 
death of Seamus Duffy, aged 
15, who was killed by a police 
plastic bullet in rioting last 
August, police sources said. 

The move marks the 
culmination of an investiga¬ 
tion led by a chief 
superintendent in the Royal 
Ulster Constabulary. 


MPs demand law against contamination of land 


BySheOaGmm 
Political Reporter 

The Government has been accused of 
failing to take action over poisoned 
industrial sites endangering public 
health and toe environment. 

The Commons environment com¬ 
mittee found that many dan gerous 
sites are left untouched for years, and 
that action is taken only when a 
planning application is made. 

The criticisms, coming after a 
report saying that waste sites may be 
“a toxic time bomb”, wSl embarrass 
Mr Chris Fatten, Secretary of Slate for 
the Environment 

The re por t, published yesterday, 
says toe Department of Environment 
gives too little weight to toe problems 
of land contaminated by industrial 
processes, such as okl gas works, oil 


refineries and chemical works. “By 
defining contaminated land narrowly 
and solely in relation to end-use, the 
Department of the Environment may 
be underestimating a genuine 
environmental problem and mis¬ 
directing effort and resources.” 

The report adds: “There is land in 
the UK which is co n t amin a te d and a 
threat to health and the environment, 
both on she and in the surrounding 
area. The primary focus of central and 
local government activity must be 
upon land which is a hazard to health 
or the environment.” 

The MPs say Britain has been 
spared some of toe worst effects of 
uncontrolled dumping. But there 
should be no complacency over toe 
management of toxic waste. 

They say the Department holds 
little mfonnatfon about polluted bad. 


and are concerned about the adequacy 
of its estimates. Their report also 
backs up other warnings about toe 
shortage of pollution inspectors. 

Among the recommendations are: a 
law to prevent companies polluting 
the soft, and to force owners to 
disclose information about contam¬ 
ination of land when they sell it; local 
re g is ters of contaminated rites, and 
new powers for the National Rivers 
Authority to scrutinize planning 
applxsrtKras for poisoned sites. 

• Sir Hugh Rossi, c hairman of the 
xriect committee on toe environment, 
yesterday called for an end to toe 
dispute over whether to build a long 
sea outfall at Morecambe Bay. Lan¬ 
cashire, to combat sewage problems 
on Britain’s most polluted coastline 
(Mark Souster writes). 

Lancashire County Council and the 


Save Morecambe Bay Campaign, on 
one hand, and North West Water 
Company and Blackpool District 
Council, on toe other, gave evidence 
to the committee yesteday. Sir Hugh 
described toe stalemate between them 
as “a nonsense”, although be empha¬ 
sized that he was not biased for or 

■ pind 1h«» OUtfalL 

The North West Water Company is 
planning a three mile outfall costing 
£50 million al Fleetwood to solve 
pollution problems but opponents say 
that pumping untreated sewage into 
tbe Lune Deep, however far out, will 
damage toe marine environment, and 
affect the jobs of fishermen. 

House of Commons Environment Com¬ 
mittee Just report: Contaminated Land, 
S tatio n er y Office, £11.90 net. 

Photograph, page IQ 


Green group calls for stricter 
control of North Sea dumping 


By Pearce Wright, Science Editor 


More stringent monitoring of 
marine life and tighter con¬ 
trols over discharges of waste 
in the North Sea were called 
for yesterday by the Marine 
Forum for Environmental 
Issues. 

Tbe group is seeking action 
by toe Government after 
analysing studies from 24 
expert groups into toe types of 
waste dumping and their im¬ 
pact on fisheries, seals and 
dolphins, birdlife and the 
marine plants and micro¬ 
scopic organisms that form 
the basis of the food chain. 

The studies covered dis¬ 


charges into the North Sea 
from rivers, ship and oil 
platform operations, dum ping 
and dredging by vessels and 
contamination from airborne 
pollutants. 

The forum's report, pub¬ 
lished _ yesterday, includes an 
invcsugalion into the impact 
of sea level rises expected 
from global warming. 

Presenting the findings to a 
meeting in London, held iu 
conjunction with the Royal 
Geographical Society, Lord 
t. ran brook, chairman of the 
forum, said; “W e must ston 
using the North Sea as if it^Ss 


a bole in the ground. The good 
neighbourly principle also ap¬ 
plies because the North Sea 
does not belong to Britain.** 

He said there must be a haft 
to toe disposal of injurious 
substances. But it was not 
possible to pursue a policy’ of 
zero discharges or to case afl 

economic activities is toe 
North Sea. 

The report pre p ar ed tiw 
third Intenmmsteriri North 
Sea Conference, to be b ddf t 
The Hague nest tn ocfo* 
concludes that a W*n* 
needs to be found » g wuttra 
essential eco lo gi c al processes. 


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NUT faces demand 


for debate on 

homosexual rights 


A one-da fa By David Tytler, Education Editor 

bian and iWe ‘J teacte - The branches are “victimized by practising 

tobemSStofeft! Z^ t J?K rtUrcmways 

•sSssSS »“ ou,d 


a more moderate imm”" 11 T T ^*ers in Hackney, east 

London, want the union to 


The union’s branch m 
Bm«ton, north London, has 
pot down a motion fin- the 
annual conference in Bourne¬ 
mouth at Easter calling on the 

naaonal executive to defend 
the rights of and 

homosexuals by the “positive 
representation of 
'homosexuality”. 

Ia an attack on hetero¬ 
sexuals, the branch calls on 
the union to train members 
not to adopt “helerascdsm” 
mnrm discriminates against 
homosexuals. The union is 
asked to supporthomosexual 
teachers and to hold an “an¬ 
nual one-day conference 
exclusively cm lesbian and gay 
issues in education”. 

_ A motion from central Not* 
linghamshire, Oxford, 
H ill ing don and Leeds says 
that tins self-management of 
schools could result in the 
victimization of women, 
homosexual, black and dis- 


eampaign for the repeal of 
Qause 28 which prevents the 
active promotion of homo¬ 
sexuality by local authorities, 
saying that “every school con¬ 
tains a large number of pupils 
who identify themselves or 
who will come to identify 
themselves as lesbian, gay or 
bisexual”. 

Their motion asks the 
union to “defend vigorously 
any members who may be 
vic tim iz ed for constructive 
and truthful teaching about 
lesbian and gay sexuality and 
lifestyles’*. 

Other motions condemn 
the Government’s require¬ 
ment that ail state schools 
should have a daily fhrieian 
assembly, saying that it has led 
to demands, particularly from 
Muslims, for separate schools. 
Lambeth, Isling ton, and the 
Inner London Teachers* 
Association are asking that rhf! 
union defends teachers who 


anti-racist education.” 

Branches are being asked to 
vote on which of the hundreds 
of motions that have been 
tabled should appear on the 
final agenda. The union’s 
national executive is likely to 
intervene to prevent the more 
extreme being discussed. 

• Nearly half as many more 
parents are applying to send 
their children to schools that 
have opted out of local au¬ 
thority control than at the 
same time last year, according 
to figures released yesterday. 
At present there are 1.6 
applications for every place. 

Grant-maintained schools 
report that applications have, 
risen by an average 45 percent 
at the 32 schools which will be 
running this September. This 
time last year few schools 
knew whether they would be 
allowed to opt out and many 
of them were facing an un¬ 
certain future either through 
planned closure or amal¬ 
gamation. 

• Scotland's colleges of edu¬ 
cation are to increase their 
intake for teacher training 
courses by 36 per cent in the 
next academic year, the Scot¬ 
tish Office said. 


AIL* A A A 1^ J. JLSS\J __ , 

Spiral eye view of a royal house 

DBIZL McNEELANCE 

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Mr Richard Ormond, of the National Maritime Museum, ms theTnKp Staircase at the restored Queen’s House, Greenwich. 


Council on 
the spot 
over exam 
mistake 

The leader of a Manchester 
council yesterday publicly 
apologized for a printing error 
in an 11-plus examination 
paper as the authority faced 
legal action over the mistake. 

The exam, sat by 2,600 
Manchester children, was 
ruled invalid because some 
children were given 40 min¬ 
utes to take the test and others 
SO minutes. 

The test was ruled invalid 
by the education committee 
last month. Labour members 
are convinced that, if the 
results are allowed to stand, 
aggrieved parents will com¬ 
plain to the Ombudsman and 
be prepared to go to coun. The 
Tory group, which controls 
the council, believes that if a 
new exam is set, legal action 
will be taken by other parents. 

The full council has already 
reversed the education com¬ 
mittee's decision, but the 
meeting ran out of time before 
two Labour amendments 
could be put, and it will be 
resumed today. 

Edinburgh University’s 
Godfrey Thompson Unit, 
which set the test, has advised 
that the length of time allowed 
would have no effect on the 
children’s scores, but Labour 
councillors are unconvinced. 

Mr Cohn Warbrick, the 
leader of the council, yes¬ 
terday apologized publicly for 
the mistake. 


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Consumer survey 



Hunt for bargains 
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Clean floras, well-stocked shopping basket of 18 evray- 
shetves; friendly staff and day rtgmf at d i ffere n t soper- 
► v ample car-parking space are mar ket chains varied from 

* what shoppers want rather £2138 in Samsbmy’s to 

than low prices, a consumer £2239 in Safeway, 
survey pu b lished today gays. Cleanliness in supermarkets 

Free shopping bags, envi- was the top priority, with an 
romnentaQy friendly prod- 86 per cent rating from 1,876 
ucttb exotic produce and late shoppers in the natio nwide 
opening are also important survey. Payment by credit 
but shopping around for sav- card was the bottom priority, 
ingson well-known brands is with a 10 per cent score, 
usually a waste of time, the ' A report on the big super¬ 
survey in Which? magazine, mar ket chains fo und: 
published by the Consumers’ • Asda had many staffed 
Association, says. checkouts, express tills and 

Every week more than £800 ample car parking but did not 
mflHon is spent in Britain on do so weO on providing a 
groceries, meat and veg-. packing service, 
etabtes, ofwhich 80 per cent • The Co-op was below av- 
goes tp supermarkets rather erage for parking facilities, 
than small shops. More shop- staffed checkouts and express 
pen are using the new tills but customers liked stores 
superstore and hypermarkets near their homes, 
which have hardware, garden- •Gateway was below average 
ing, linen and toy sections. for parking, knowledgeable 
Shoppers also welcome staff; ad eq ua te checkouts and 
baby changing roams, lava- express tills. 
i tones, delicatessen counters, •KwikSave was under par on 
fresh bread ba ke d on the parking but had helpful, 
premises, fresh fish counters knowledgeable staff and a 
and seats. wide selection of goods and 

About 75 per cent of shop- checkouts, 
pers have access to a car and • Safeway had helpful, knowt- 
many prefer to drive long edgeabte staff and many 
distances to outrof-town sto- ch eck ou ts and packers, 
res rather than get caught in • Salisbury's was above av- 
traffic jams and be unable to erage for a wide selection of 
fi n d a parking space in the products and many checkouts, 
high street express tills and packers. 

Hunting for bargains is • Tesco was above average 
becoming a trend of the past for parking facilities and 
“If you are trying to save staffed checkouts, 
money on well-known brands • Waitrose had helpful, 
you’ll have to hunt high and knowledgeable staff and ade- 
low for a bargain,” the maga- quate express tills and 
zine says. The survey found packers, 
that out of 118 cans of baked • The average cost of a wed- 
beans 111 were priced at 26p. ding in Britain has risen to 
It also found that prices in £6,769, according to a survey 
branches of a single super- of 1,184 couples about to be 
market rhain were consistent, married earned out by You 
% whether in Essex, Exeter and and Your Wedding magazine 
Edinburgh. The price of a (Robin Young writes). 


We've taken 
Airbus technology 

TO NEW HEIGHTS. 



Vitamin piUs no 

cure for poor diet 


The A 310 . A name that represents the ultimate in 


Airbus technology. And Pan Am's nineteen new 


Ch3draL, pregnant women, 
the ehferiy and people on1 low 
incomes may not be getting 
e nou g h vitamins and minerals 
from their diets, bat ta king 
supplement pflb is not the 
answer, according to a report 
pnbHihe d today In Which? 

magazine (Ray Clancy writes). 

riaimv that vitamins can 
care stress, perk a person op 
or improve a child’s m tefl *- 
gence are misleading and the 

Government's recommended 
daily amounts for some vita¬ 
mins and minerals needs to be 
reviewed, Which? says. 

After testing a vanety of 
multivitamins and mineral 
supplements, the report cow- 
dudes that it makes more 
sense to improve or vary diet 
than to take pfik. 

“Food gives yon atet of 
other things yon wed nke 
are aaj Sergy, which yon 
won’t get from vitamin 
pflls,**the report says. 

It recommends ste a min g, 
not soaking, vegeta^jbe- 
canse nutrients are destroyed 
by hnfiiag and vitamin C 
dissolves in water. 

It says bottles of no“ 
should be pat away as soon as 
possible because exposure to 
fight destroys some vitamins; 
and recommends nsng reft* 
j over wwifim water from ^*8" 

‘ Afahigg and cooking puces 
fo m —fg* to make soap or 

g raVy# 

It rays ttwse who choweto 
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tivejonrnffismarefikelytDbe 
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Bader the new Bro adc a stin g 
Bfll, according to research on 
the fature of television pub¬ 
lished in Which? today. 

“There is a danger that the 
Government's review of broad¬ 
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ing to h op* for safe mass- 
appeal prognoses that attract 
the highest ratings and thus 
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the report says. 

“This would lead to less 

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programming and less atten- 
tjon being paid to what viewers 
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wards what is marketable, Hke 
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The report also warns 
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^Sponsorship should be care¬ 
fully controlled. Viewers 
shook! not be confused about 
what is being provided by the 

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that viewera do not want to see 
more soap operas and coaed- 
fes. They wooM rather bare 
more recent film^ nature pro¬ 
grammes, adventure leisure 
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THE TIMES THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1 1990 


OVERSEAS NEWS 


moves to 
its image as 

apartheid capital 


v I ^ feyKem ^™Joliaiaiesbai* and Gafin BeH in Cape 

attention on&Sth^Afi^k!? Owservnive Party 

sWfied to One tvi^TS.2 ? “ strong in the asy and in 
President !9 . 87 municipal elections 

ooMjSrhwi?* ^ ** 19 seats against the 

S™* National Sty’s 23. 
outfime plans for would have 

S on H tr s , ^ vot £i; so T 

toriadty^mSl£ i fiScmt not been spirt 

bold deciriQBL^ ™“° a *wwgh the intervention of 

the extremist Herstigte 


After a heated debate on 
Tuesday night, it voted to 
<®ct up its bus services, 
uoraies, swimming pools and 

angling facilities to all races. It 
wul also seek government 
pcntossion to open up the 
- central business district and a 

' number of suburbs as “fine 
trade areas”. 

Under the Gnmp Areas Act, 
one of the main planks of 
, apartheid, blacks are officially 
barred from conducting busi¬ 
ness in most city and town 
centres. Re-zoning as a “free 
trade” area means that blacks 
can openly do business with¬ 
out fear of police h ara ss m ent 
or, as many do already, use a 
token white front 

Mr Janme van Zyl, a bus 
driver, was. angry and ada¬ 
mant yesterday. “Kaffirs will 
not get into my bos,” he said. 

Mr van Zyi, aged 29, is a 
municipal bus driver in fte- 
toria. South Africa’s admin¬ 
istrative capital, and long 
considered a citadel of conser¬ 
vative Afrikanendom. He 
drives his double-decker out 
of Church Square, do minate d 
by a ponderous statue of Paul 
Kruger. 

“If a kaffir tries to get on my 
bus, m throw him off very 
quickly” said Mr van ZyL 
Half a dozen friends with him 
agreed unanimously. 

Mr Safufl r Cassim, chair¬ 
man of the management com¬ 
mittee in I-JniHtiim. a «MTMa. 
ted Indian district of Pretoria, 
yesterday described the coun¬ 
cil’s decision as “a bold step 
for Pretoria bat a small step in 
what was hap pening m South 
Africa” 

The dated rhetoric aside, 
the coundPs move is, in feet, 
courageous. The white sop- 


Nasionate Party. 

Tuesday nigifs vote was 
22-19, and the Conservatives 
had a foil house. 

Meanwhile Johannesburg, 
which c on s ider s itsdf far more 
liberal, voted to declare the 
satire dty a free trade area. 
Only the four Conservative 
councillors opposed the mo¬ 
tion. It was announced that all 
toe city's bus services would 
go multiracial within 10 days. 

Perhaps more significant 
than the Pretoria and Johan¬ 
nesburg decisions was the vote 
by toe council at Kterfcsdorp, a 
country town in the Western 
Transvaal about 60 
from Johannesburg, to scrap 
racial trading bars. Rural 
white o wnmiwtri^ are con¬ 
sidered to be the most strongly 
opposed to reform. 

Four coundDors voted ag¬ 
ainst the proposal and four in 
favour. Mr Chris van Eeden, 
toe chairman of toe manage¬ 
ment committee, decided the 
issue with his «^mg vote. 

He said the decision was 
based solely on a business and 
not a patittca) point of view. 
“There is a very healthy 
relationship between all the 
communities of Klerkadorp,” 
he said. 

He added: “I believe the 
opening of toe central busi¬ 
ness district to all races will 
cultivate that idafionshipL” 

In another agn of change in 
the political ctimate^ President 
de Klerk yesterday ordered a 
judicial inquiry intn the 
of a Mack man, accused of 
involvement in guerrilla at¬ 
tacks, who was found hanged 
inhiscdL ' 

No such inquiry had been 
called after scores of previous 
incidents in which black ac¬ 


tivists died while in police 
custody. According to local 
newspapers, the young man, 
Mr Clayton Sitbole. was a 
former lover of the daughter 
of Nelson Mandela, lie jailed 
Mack leader, and the father of 
her child. 

Mr Sithole and four other 
suspected African National 
Congress guerrillas were arres¬ 
ted on Fnday in Soweto, the 
vast Mack township outside 
Johannesburg- Police accused 
the group of killing 10 people, 
including two policemen, in 
attacks with hand grenades 
and automatic rifles over the 
part two years. 

Police said Mr Sithole was 
found hanging from a shower 
pipe on Tuesday in his cell at 
John Vorster Square, Johann¬ 
esburg’s centra) police station. 
It said an investigation into 
the death had started and 
would indude a post mortem 
by a state pathologist 
Mrs Audrey Coleman, a 
prominent human rights ac¬ 
tivist, welcomed Mr de 
Klerk’s move, saying she 
could not recall such a swift 
and emphatic response to any 
of the scores of other deaths of 
detainees which she has mon¬ 
itored in recent years. 

Local moves towards de¬ 
segregation, amid increasing 
activism by the blade nation¬ 
alist movement, have left 
President de Klerk open to 
conflicting pressure from the 
white right wing. 

Dr Andries Treumicht, the 
leader of the official Oppo¬ 
sition, the Conservative Party, 
told a miners' rally in 
Johannesburg: “We do not 
owe toe ANC any say in our 
nation or our land.” 

The Afrikaner Resistance 
Movement warned that “all 
hell will break loose” if 
Mandela was freed. Mr Eu¬ 
gene Terre Blanche, its leader, 
evoked images of a nine¬ 
teenth-century battle against 
the Zulus when he declared: 
“We shall fight until our land 
is as white asit was after Blood 
River” 


Calabria kidnap victim gains freedom 


From Pan) Bompard 
Route 

Church bells rang in Pavia 
yesterday to celebrate the 
release of Signor Cesare 
CaseQa, who was reunited 
with his family at the end of 
one of the longest-running 
Italian kidnapping sagas on 
record. 

Signor Casella, aged 20, was 
freed in southern Italy on 
Tuesday night after being held 
for 742 days Flown home in a 
military aircraft, he told 
reporters: "1 am happy. It was 
hard. For two years I saw only 
people wearing hoods. Now I 
do not know wbat to say with 
all these people here.” 

One of the kidnappers had 
been kind. “He was a delin¬ 
quent, too, but the rest treated 
me like a dog.” 

Signor Casella said he had 
thought be would be lolled 
when his kidnappers moved 
him from their hide-out in the 
Aspromonte mountains of 
Calabria. 

Instead, according to a se¬ 
nior police officer, they 
chained him to a pole from 
which he managed to free 
himself and seek help. 

Signora Angela Casella, his 
mother, with whom he had a 
tearful reunion, became na¬ 
tionally known as “Mother 
Courage” for her defiance of 
the 'Ndrangbeta, toe Cala¬ 
brian equivalent of the Mafia. 

She chained herself to trees 
and slept in tents in Calabrian 
mountain towns. At least four 
other hostages are believed to 
be held by the same organiza¬ 
tion in the region. 

Signor Casella, whose father 
has a Citroen dealership in 
Pavia, was seized there on 
January 18, 1988. The family 
paid a ransom of one billion 
lire (£484,000) in August that 
year. The kidnappers then 
made further demands for 
money. 

These were not met. The 
authorities last year froze the 
family ’s assets and sent hun¬ 
dreds of police into the 
Aspromonte region. 

Kidnap pin g is still believed 
to be an important source of 
income few many small towns 
in Calabria, on the toe of the 
I talian peninsula, where un¬ 
employment is rife and the 
law is laid down by the 
’Ndrangheta rather than local 
government 

Police estimate that Cala¬ 
brian gangs are responsible for 
almost half toe abductions in 





S3 
•• '<*< 

A mother’s joy: Signora Angela Casella in Pavia welcoming home her son, Cesare, held for two years by a kidnapping gang. 


Italy. These days they work 
outside their poor southern 
region, a move that has more 
to do with lack of targets than 
with effective police work. 

“There is practically no one 
left here worth kidnapping, M a 
local builder said. According 
to a recent survey by a local 
ma garine, Calabrian kidnap¬ 
pers now concentrate their 
efforts in towns round Milan. 
But, once kidnapped, victims 
are habitually hidden away in 
toe Aspromonte. 

More than 600 people have 
been kidnapped in Italy dur¬ 
ing toe post 20 years, most of 
them in Lombardy. 

While more efficient police 
work hag helped dimmish the 
incidence of kidnapping, a 
hardcore of Calabrian kidnap¬ 
pers is still at work. Last year 
10 people were kidnapped for 
ransom, there were 14 the year 


before; five of the 24 victims 
are still in captivity. 

Income from ransoms is 
estimated at about 200 billion 
lire a year. Much of it is 
reinvested in building devel¬ 
opments around Aspromonte 
villages. One area — near 
Locri, renowned as a kidnap 

6 The family 
paid a ransom of 
one billion lire 
in 1988; more 
was asked for 9 

ping centre — is shamelessly 
known as the Paul Getty 
village, after the kidnapping of 
Paul Getty HI in 1973. 

Victims may be fewer these 
days, but ransom demands 
have kept pace with inflation. 


now averaging two billion lire 
(almost £1 million) and the 
average term of imprisonment 
is almost a year, even two 
years, compared to several 
months in the late 1970s when 
kidnappings were more fre¬ 
quent Between 1977and 1982 
there were, on average, 40 to 
50 a year, rather cheaper 
affairs costing ransom-payers 
several hunched millions of 
lire instead of several billion. 

Dynamics of the average 
kidnapping have chang ed lit¬ 
tle over the years. 

In the case of Signor Mirella 
Srloccbi, kidnapped by ban¬ 
dits who invaded the family 
holiday house last July, ran¬ 
som demands were backed up 
with a gruesome package sent 
to the family containing his 
hacked-off ear. Signor Dante 
Berlardinrili, a Tuscan busi¬ 
nessman, returned home from 


captivity last year minus a 
piece of both ears. 

There is a growing aware¬ 
ness that kidnapping is the 
kind of barbarous crime ill- 
befitting a country that aspires 
to fifth place in the world 
economy, one where average 
living standards are on a par 
with most First World na¬ 
tions. TV documentaries de¬ 
nounce the outrages and 
feature Aspromonte towns, 
such as San Luca, which 
supposedly live off ransom 
money and where, according 
to a recent commentary, 10 
per cent of the population 
knows where Signor Casella 
was hidden and who bis 
captois are but no one will 
talk. 

There are plenty of voices— 
even in Calabria — raised 
a gainst kidnapping, but the 
law of omerta still rules. 


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WORLD ROUNDUP 


Heavy attack on 
Unita stronghold 

Lisbon — Dr Jonas Savimbi, leader of the rebel Unita 
movement in Angola, ent short his scheduled eight-day 
“private;” visit to Portugal and returned to Angola early 
yesterday, saying that heavy fighting between his forces and 
those of the MPLA Government made his presence impera¬ 
tive (Martha de la Col writes). He also cancelled visits to 
Belgium, Germany and other Eu ro pe a n countries. 

He said fighting was raving place near Cuando Cubango 
«nt Mavinga in southern Angola, with the bomba r d m e nt of 
Unita-beld territory there by some 15 MiG fighters. A strong 
MPLA offensive in southern Angola, with the town of 
Mavinga as the main objective, began five weeks ago. The 
Angolas Army has reported a key breakthrough against 
ribcls defending Mavinga, the Portuguesenewsagency Losa 
said yesterday, fiwrming it bad killed 500 Unita men. 


M1U JWIWUO/, ... . .... . ...c. —— - ---— 

Witness in Barry deal 

Washington - Mr James McWilliams, a dty council 
employee and a key witness in the case, has agreed to co¬ 
operate with toe federal investigation of Mr Marion Barry, 
significantly increasing the chances of Washington’s Mayor 

being charged with perjury and obstructio n of jurt ice as weD 

as of possessing cocaine (Martin Fletcher writes). 

Mr McWilliams is the one man who could corroborate 
claims that Mr Barry smoked crack in a room m 
Washington 's Ramada Inn on December 19,1988. In court 
thi” mk. as part of a ptea-bargain deal with federal 
prosecutors, he pleaded guilty to helping obtain drugs on 
dial He then made a two-hour private appearance m 

front of the grand jury which has been investigating Mr 
Barry’s activities for the past 13 montos- 
afonner friend of the Mayor's, has testified under oath that 
he smoked crack with Mr Barry at the Ramada Inn. 

China holds Catholics 

Pelting - A wave of arrests has swept toe underground 
Roman Catholic Chinch in toe past few months, reflecting 
increasing nervousness by toe Chinese Government about 
toe threat posed by illegal organaatiaas (Catbeme Samp¬ 
son wriies)/While the arrests are all.but impossible tooon- 
frnn vmhin China, wefl-informed church sources in Pans, 
ST Vatican and Hong Rong say th« as many as 32 
r^thnlicsTwho refuse to join the officially sanctioned 
Pamotie^atbolic Association and remain loyal to the Pope, 
have been arrested nationally m the past two months. 

Sri Lanka abductions 

Tamil guerrilla group, toe Liberation Tigers of 
J y rViiithaYapa writes). Tension was mounting 

gsbaassssBissasss 

province, which began tart year- 

Hong Kong clash 

Bong Ibe 

and two boat people where more than 100 

clearing °w f * a 12 ^%^ * government 

inmates have *“ 8 “* was due to be dosed last 
spokeswoman people, toe remnants of 3,000 

week, butagrwp^O^ w detention 

Vietnameseof their boats to sail on to 



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Palmer reshuffle^ ^ 

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Repercussions of the Kashmir conflict 


Hindu hardliners urge crackdown on Muslims 


From Christopher Thomas, Delhi 


Hindu hardliners-are moving 
swiftly to capitalize on toe 
anti-Indian uprising in Mus- 
lim-majority Kashmir, where 
a state of emergency has 
created a surly and doubtless 
temporary peace. 

The real danger lies not in 
the threat of war with Paki¬ 
stan, which almost certainly 
will not happen, but in the 
flames ofHindu-Mudim com- 
munabsm that it could ignite 
across India. 

Hindu extremists are now 
calling for an all-out offensive 
to round up Muslim guerrilla 
leaders in Kashmir. They 
describe the uprising not only 
as anti-government but, omi¬ 
nously, as “anti-Hindu”. 

Despite toe hostile rhetoric 
between India and Pakistan in 

recent days — most of it for 
domestic consumption — no¬ 
body in toe higter ranks of toe 
Government in Delhi seri¬ 
ously believes that the two 
countries are heading for war. 
There have long been cross- 
border sfcrrnusfcs. 

Confr ontation may result 
from a mass march into India 
by Kashmiris from the Paki¬ 
stani side of the dividing line 
as a show of solidarity with 
their Muslim “brothers”. In 
recent weeks there has been an 


exodus of up to 10,000 Hindus 
from the valley, according to 
unofficial estimates. 

India has substantially rein¬ 
forced its miliiary presence in 
the frontier zone, primarily in 
the belief that it may have to 
encounter masses of civilians. 

Even if Pakistan did mount 
a military operation, it could 
hardly expect to rout South 
Asia’s military superpower. 
Pakistan’s security forces, in 
any case, are preoccupied 
covering toe western border 
with Afghanistan. Pakistan 
feces grave security problems 
in Sind province, which toe 
Army is watching with in¬ 
creased unease. 

India's portrayal of Paki¬ 
stan as instigator of toe Kash¬ 
mir troubles ignores the feet 
that toe separatist movement 
has mass indigenous support. 
There is no great love for 
Pakistan: Kashmiris on toe 
Indian side of the 1948 line of 
control are aware that joining 
Pakistan would mean flooding 
their valley with Palbans and 
Punjabi Muslims. 

The causes of the Kashmir 
conflict are many: contempt 
for toe corrupt National Con¬ 
ference, which has always 
been toe only serious political 
force in toe valley; toe impact 


of growing Islamic funda¬ 
mentalism; toe strong sense of 
political and social isolation 
from India; and the explosive 
combination of edu c ated and 
unemployed youth. 

Indian politicians have al¬ 
ways shied away from Kash¬ 
mir, since anybody challeng¬ 
ing toe towering dominance of 
the National Conference was 



perceived almost as anti-In¬ 
dian. Most alternative pol¬ 
itical groups were pro-Palri- 
stan, such as the Plebiscite 
Front and toe Awami Action 
Committee. The only plau¬ 
sible alternative to emerge was 
the Muslim United Front, 
although it was fundamental¬ 
ist It was crushed in rigged 


state assembly elections in 
1987. After that, any sem¬ 
blance of legitim ate politics in 
the Kashmir valley died. 

The National Conference 
has collapsed in disgrace and 
its leader. Dr Farooq Abdul¬ 
lah, is holed up in Delhi. The 
Indian Government, desper¬ 
ately searching for a viable 
policy initiative, is exploring 
whether he and his party can 
be reshaped, repackaged and 
rehabilitated. 

Hated though it certainly is, 
toe National Conference is 
stfll toe only political party on 
offer in the valley. If it did 
return, it would obviously not 
have to share power a g ain 
with the Congress (?) party, 
which has no political base 
and no popular support in 
Kashmir. 

The unnatural coalition was 
fenced on Kashmir by Mr 
Rajiv Gandhi, the former 
Prime Minister, who wanted 
to make his presence felt there 
both for political and nostalgic 
reasons. His mother, Indira 
Gandhi, and grandfather, 
Jawaharial Nehru, were Kash¬ 
miri brahmins. 

While Muslim countries 
continue to berate India for its 
handling of toe Kashmir cri¬ 
sis, the 90 million-odd non- 


Kashmiri Muslims of India 
have stayed quiet They have 
learned over toe past 43 years 
that there is safety in silence. 
They have never displayed an 
interest is the affairs of Kash¬ 
miri Muslims or in pan- 
Islamic politics. 

Non-Kashmiri Muslims re¬ 
gard the current unpreced¬ 
ented separatist challenge with 
alarm. Their security inride 
Hindu India hangs bjy a per¬ 
ilously thin thread, as anti- 
Muslim riots during last 
November's general election 
demonstrated. They are thinly 
spread across India, a vulner¬ 
able minority that tries hard to 

be inconspicuous. 

The right-wing Hindu party, 
toe Bharatiya Janata Party, 
whose parliamentary support 
is vital to toe survival of toe 
National Front Government, 
has so fer restrained itself over 
Kashmir. But its more voci¬ 
ferous sister party, toe Bom¬ 
bay-based Shiv Sena, has 
d emanded the formal im¬ 
position of martial law and 
pursuit of a hardline policy. 

Kashmir is resented by 
many Hindus because it re¬ 
ceives disproportionate out¬ 
lays of central government 
money which, among other 

thin g s, are used to subsidize 


toe cost of rice. To many, this 
amounts to pampering Mus¬ 
lims at toe expense of Hindus. 

Much of the money is 
diverted into officials' pock¬ 
ets, however, and the overall 
cost of living in Kashmir is 
substantially hi gher than in 
toe rest of India, in part 
because of transport costs. 
Vegetables and meat, for 
example, are much more 
expensive. Poverty is there¬ 
fore as endemic in India’s only 
Muslim majority state — the 
“spoilt” state, it is often called 
— as it is in toe Hindu 
heartland. 

• SRINAGAR: Muslim se¬ 
cessionists traded gunfire with 
security forces yesterday as toe 
authorities relaxed toe curfew 
here in the summer capital of 
Kashmir, leaving four people 
wounded (AFP reports). 

A police spokesman said a 
constable of toe paramilitary 
Central Reserve Police Force 
had been wounded by a 
sniper. Police and paramili¬ 
tary troops patrolled the dty 
as toe authorities relaxed an 
indefinite curfew for 11 hours 
from 5am, bat as news of the 
shooting spread shops that 
had reopened after several 
days brought down their shut¬ 
ters a gain. 


Beirut Christian factions 
battle to control enclave 


From Juan Carlos Gnrancio, Beirut 


The tong-simmering struggle 
for control of L ebanon ' s Chris- 

tfen enclave exploded violently 
in toe streets of east Beirut 
yesterday after General Mi¬ 
chel Aoun seat his troops to 
crush the powerful Phalangist 
“Lebanese Forces” nrffitia of 
Mr Samir Geagea. 

Christian army sohfiera and 
toerr *nfgg were Indeed in 
heavy fi rirt m g ia at least four 
residential districts of east 
Beirut and in the northern 


Forces” television 
Last right* toe Army appeared 
to have toe upper hand and 
General Aoou was trying to 
play down toe importance and 
nf rtM» wMifinatath m 
by declaring that Ms sddkrt 
had been ordered to ^join toenr 
brothers in military barracks 
to avert Woodshed and cogtam 
toe Josses”. 

Speaking oa toe militia’s 
“Free Lebanon” radio station, 


desperate calls for a ceasefire 

by the Maronite Church. By 
evening, wayward shells of 
those batiks began landing in 
Syrian-controlled west Beirut. 

The fond of shellfire echoed 

across toe dty as convoys of 
merchant ships bmrkdly left 
Beirut port. Last night, there 
woe no reliable casualty re¬ 
ports and Red Cross volun¬ 
teers were too frightened to 
pick up toe dead and wounded 
lying in the streets. 

As the fighting raged out¬ 
side, east Beirut residents 
watched the fibs Tie KUlixg 
Fields on the “Lebanese 



General Aoun: Sought to 
play down scale of fighting. 


Mr Geagea left no doabt that 
this may be the final battle for 
the Christian leadership and 
he is pr epa r ed to fight to the 
end. “We will not allow those 
blinded by power to slau gh ter 
the Lebanese Forces,” Mr 
Geagea said. “Onr pati enc e 
cannot last forever.” 

Apart from a number of 
militia positions, uits of toe 
20,000-stnrag Army loyal to 
the general took over a re¬ 
search centre known as “the 
house of toe future” in 
Dbayfeh, and the Casin o da 
Liban—two key institutions m 
the LFs structure of political 
and economic power. 

Armed with tanks, field 
guns and mobile rocket 
launchers, Mr Geagea’s 
10,000 mUztiamen coaid prove 
a most dangerous enemy. “I 
have ordered all the Lebanese 
Forces fighters to stay in their 
barracks and defend them,” 
Mr Geagea said, although his 
men appeared to have bees 
takmgkey military initiatives. 
The "Kfa rtaiwipd it had 
captared the air force base of 
Halat, just north of Beirut 


‘Couch potatoes’ to be fed 
round-the-clock litigation 


America’s growing population 
of television addicts — “conch 
potatoes”, as they are known 
— which already supports 
Weather ChanneC a 24-hour 
forecast service on a cable 
network, is about to have its 
endurance further tested by 
two new stations which intend 
to brodcast round-the-dock 
action from the courts. 

Hoping to cash in on the 
present popularity of tele¬ 
vision verisi — which has 
already brought viewers real- 
life police on the beat and will 
soon also offer firemen and 
hospital doctors — two com¬ 
panies are raring to start live 
cable broadcasts of real trials. 

American Lawyer Media 
Limited Partnership, a partner 
ofTime Warner Incorporated, 
the communications giant, is 
already promoting American 
Lawyer Media Channel, as its 
service is tentatively called, 
for an October lansdi, white 
Cablevision Systems Corpora¬ 
tion plans to open its In Court 
channel in September. 

Live courtroom coverage is 
now possible in 44 states in 


Fhm James Bone, New York 

the US, and has produced 
such media successes as last 
year's chfld abuse case in New 
York against Mr Joel Stein- 
bag, who was convicted of 
triTTmg his illegafly adopted 
daughter in his Greenwich 
Village apartment 

Local stations ran hour after 
hour of live testimony from 
toe Steinberg trial, apparently 
convincing programmers that 
toe public has an appetite for 
real courtroom drama. 

But the first syndicated TV 
programme using only ma¬ 
terial from real trials, Repub¬ 
lic Pictures Corporation’s 
half hour On Trial, which was 
broadcast last year on 140 
local stations covering 75 per 
cent of the country, did not 
achieve a second season. 

Admitting that real trials are 
often dull, its producers said 
that the show could not attract 
more than about three-quar¬ 
ters of its required audience of 
32 million households. 

Mr Charles Larsen, the head 
of Republic's domestic trie- 
vision distribution, conceded 
that his company's condensa¬ 


tion of taped trial coverage 
could not save up so spicy a 
diet as ^v-h fictional series as 
LA Law or People's Court 

The new courtroom chan¬ 
nels will try to break the 
monotony which character¬ 
izes toe American legal system 
by providing commentary as 
though the trials were an 
Olympic event. 

They also plan, during dull 
moments, to air short features 
and law-related news. For 
those who still cannot get 
enough, the In Court channel 
is considering screening films 
featuring fictional courtroom 
dramas at weekends. 

But one problem which the 
new riiantiriH will fo re is that 
many of the most important, 
and interesting, trials in 
America, including the forth¬ 
coming cases against General 
Manuel Noriega, the former 
Panamanian leader, Mr Mich- 
ari Milken, the junk-bond 
king, and Mrs Imdda Marcos, 
the former Philippines First 
Lady, are held in federal 
courts, from which cameras 
are barred. 




















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THE TIMES THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1 1990 


COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM 


Candidates line up in the wings for Gorbachov’s job 

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Fran Mary Dc£evsky, Moscow 

President Gorbachov yesterday denied 
that he bad any intention of resigning fais 
post as Gommimist Party chief and 
declared that he was p rep arin g for 
important decohms on the future of die 
country’s power str uc tur e. 

His remarks came after a report on 
Tuesday night by Gable News Network 
drat he was considering standing down 
as party chief while remaining President 
of the Soviet Union. 

Mr Mikfaafl Gorbachov yesterday 
dismissed the US repot — which Sloe 
earlier rumours sent world stock markets 
plunging — as “groundless". 

Rumours predicting Mr Gorbachov's 
imminent demise have in the past 
always outpaced hard evidence that he is 
in real danger. 

Despite the latest denials, the number 
of candidates who could plausibly 
replace the Soviet leader, should he 
resign or be deposed, is growing. 

Even a year ago, there were commonly 
hdd to be at most two alternatives to Mr 
Gorbachov: the obvious frontrunner was 
Mr Yegor Ligachov, who provided a 


rallying poim for those who felt that Mr 
Gorbachov’s pr ogr amm e was a force for 
economic ana social duds and was 
ideologically unsound to boot. The 
other, less realistic, candidate was Mr 

Boris Yeltsin, not so much for his radical 

fait vague political programme as for foe 
rapport he enjoyed with ordinary people 
— amply demonstrated by his victory in 
the Moscow elections last spring. 

NowMrligacfaov’B st ar se ems tobe in 
decline, although the volume of applause 
for his contributions at forums like the 
Congress of People’s Deputies shows 
that his popularity among die rank and 
file of the Communist Party is mxiimin- 
ished. The redaction in Iris influence 
could remit from iris responsibility for 
the still fiuHiig agricultural sector or 
reflect the political demotion he suffered 
when allotted tte agriculture portfolio in 
1988. 

He also se ems to have lost the pre¬ 
eminence he enjoyed in the Central 
Committee Secretariat This body was 
almost disbanded when be was eff¬ 
ectively “Second Secretary”, hot it was 
nguvenated late last year with the 


appointment of four new secretaries, 

Mr Yeltsin's popularity as a politician 
of the masses has, if anything; increased 
over the past year. However, the various 
components of his programme — which 
would outlaw privileges for s e nior par t y 
officials, penmt mm-CommnniA parties 
to operate, and denationalize many 
brandies of industry — appeal to 
different groups of people and alienate 
others. 

He could realistically beco m e leader 
only if a majority of the Central 
Committee decided that Mr Gorbachov 
was not refor m ist enough and 
on a wholesale renewal of the leading 
bodies. Given that the Central Com¬ 
mittee is at presort more politically 
conservative than the Politburo, this 

«rtmrin js miHVrfy — rnilwt mu 

demonstrations of the sort seen in 
Esstera Europe were to force its band. In 
that case, th£ nomination of Mr Yeltsin 
might be seen as a way to placate the 
masses, while leaving the Communist 
Party with a hold on power. 

As long as Soviet citiz ens stay off the 
streets, however, any replacement for Mr 


Gorbachov is likely to come not from 
other of the “ extreme" wings of foe 
party leadership but from the centre. Mr 
Gorbachov's strength as leader has been 

his ability to bold foe centre, tipping now 

to the co ns ervat i ves, now to foe reform¬ 
ists, as one or other group tries its 
strength. Anyone who aims, to succeed 
him will need to command foe support 
of a majority of the Politburo—which is 
demonstrably divided — and possibly of 
the Central Committee (which is equally 
polarized) as wdL 

If economic conditions in the Soviet 
Union deteriorate, and if nationalist 
unrest increases, the location of the 
centre may shift, ft can beargued that the 
ec o n o mi c proposals for the next five- 
year plan presented, by Mr Nikolai 
Ryzhkov, the Prime Minister, last 
month indicated that the centre was 
already rfiHMng , although it was 
firmly controlled by Mr Gorbachov. 

Were h to shift farther, foe two most 
plausible contenders for the post of party 
General Secretary and the increasingly 
powerful post of President could be Mr 
Ryzhkov himself; or tire se cret ar y with 


responsibility for ideology. Mr Vadim 
Medvedev. Both have successfully con¬ 
cealed their personal political sym¬ 
pathies, bending as skilfully as Mr 
Gorbachov with the p revailing wind; 
fi-fc r-nn riaim to be a reformer or a 
conservative, depending on thedreum- 
stances and foe issue at hand. 

Of the two, Mr Ryzhkov — who 
impressed Soviet audiences on tele¬ 
vision in the aftermath of the Arm enia n 
fwrfhqrffc* in December, 1988 — prob¬ 
ably has the advantage. He looks and 
sounds l!l » a leader of the new school, 
possesses considerable personal charm 
(he was the speaker at last year's 
Ti fpqvprtfi fin* International Women's 
Day), but has rarety shown himself to be 
an out-and-out reformer. 

He emerged from last year’s Central 
Committee piwm«n« as a supporter of 
law and order and against a free^for-aU in 

the cflfru ra ] field. There is no evidence 
the economic guidelines for foe next 
five-year plan, which so disappointed 
the reform lobby by supporting a 
continued rote for central planning, were 
drafted against his advice — although 


they did appear to contradict some erfthe 
more reformist se nt i m e n ts of Mr 
Gorbachov. 

Mr Medvedev is a less wdMmown 
ouantity. He has been seen as a 

oonsenrative, partly because of his imher 
ercy demeanour and the monotonous 
delivery of his speeches; partly because 
be stated categorically that A M q nnd r 
Solzhenitsyn’s The Gula$ Ardiipda^o 
would not be published m the Soviet 
Union, a decision that has now been 
reversed. 

He has been seen as exerting contin¬ 
ue^ |f fi ghter, censorship on foe Soviet 
although television, in particular, 
has been transformed almost beyond 
recognition. His tenure has a lso see n foe 
end of several ideological duqwles with 
Western and East European com¬ 
munists, which originated when the 
mra ntran of communist orthodoxy was 
Mr Suslov. Mr Medvedev’s 

ability to conceal a reformist soul behind 
a somewhat Suslovian manner might 
just give him the edge over Mr Ryzhkov 
in the stakes for party General Secretary, 
if not for President 


Desperate gamble 
by Romanians to 
avert pre-poll chaos 


From Christopher Walker, Bucharest 


A last-ditch attempt to pre¬ 
vent Romania slipping further 
into violent political chaos 
will be made today Mien all- 
party talks resume to try to 
find an agreed method of 
ruling the country ahead of the 
general election in May. 

In case of further demon¬ 
strations of the kind which 
brought the country dose to 
anarchy in recent days. Soviet- 
built »»nfag and armoured cars 
were positioned yesterday 
round the Front’s head¬ 
quarters where the meeting 
will take place. 

Officials working for the 
Front appear dose to collapse 
from physical exhaustion. A 
member of the private office 
ofMrFetre Roman, the Prime 
Minister, who bad just handed 
in his resignation, was 
why. “Tiredness and total 
confusion," be replied. 

The atmosphere of crisis 
intensified when one of the 
coun&y’s leading poets, Ana 
Blandiana, became the latest 
intellectual to resign from the 
Front, which has been blamed 
for providing a cover for old- 
style Communists to continue 
running Romania. 

On the eve of the talks, the 
leading political strategist on 
the Front's 11-strong exec¬ 
utive unveiled a series of 
concessions designed to win 
the support of the main oppo¬ 
sition parties, whose offices 
have been attacked by mobs 
which the front has been 
accused of reenriting. 

The professor has proposed 
foal the party should join a 
coalition to share power until 
voting on May 20, while at the 
same time splitting away the 
political wing of the Front to 
run as a contestant in foe 
election. “We believe it is 
fflegal for foe Front to hold 
political power and to take 
part in elections at the same 
time," he told a group of 


Western journalists. 

In foe present hot-house 
atmosphere it was unclear 
whether foe eleventh-hour 
gesture matte by foe Front 
would be sufficient to satisfy 
the 19 opposition parties reg¬ 
istered so fir. Most are con¬ 
vinced that the Front is 

determined to maintain its 

grip on power at any cost in 
order to impose reformed 
communism of the 
Gorbachov variety. 

“What we are now witness¬ 
ing is a straggle for power 
between those who want to 
retain a communist syste m 
under another nanwand riww» 

who want to introduce West¬ 
ern-style democracy and In¬ 
troduce a form of mixed 
economy," said Mr Nicolae 
Costd, founder of the Bee 
Democratic Party. 

Mr Costd said that seven 
parties naming as various 
types of democrats had with¬ 
drawn a pact announced only 
four days ago to support foe 
Boot’s methods of organizing 
a political dialogue. 

“We are going to contest 
them because we have proof 
that they have been organizing 
the street mobs to attack the 
opposition” be staled. “Their 
claims of spontaneity have 
been lies." 

Mr Costd said his party was 
complaining formally to the 
Front that it had not received 
promised funds with which to 
run an election campaign. 
“We have seen through 
them," he added. “They are 
trying to retain the communist 
system under another name, 
and we shall oppose that with 
afl our might” 

The struggle between the 
Bont and foe parties, so 
vitriolic that it has over¬ 
shadowed foe euphoria of foe 
revolution, has intensified 
because of memories of 1947. 
Then the discredited parties, 


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three of which have now been 
revived, were outmanoeuvred 
and picked off by the terror 
tactics of the GnmiwimwEf- 

HiitlnriaTK fiwtiiHar with 

that turbulent era have 
warned that neither the past, 
nor the more recent years 
under Ceauseacu’s ultra-re¬ 
pressive tyranny augur well 
for a smooth passage to par¬ 
liamentary democracy. 

At the heavily guarded of¬ 
fices of the rightrwing Nat¬ 
ional Feasants Party, there 
was no mood for compromise. 
“We shall propose at the talks 
that the Rom be transformed 
into a National Union Coun¬ 
cil consisting of those person¬ 
alities who have fought 
comm u nism in country 
fin 45 years, not just in recoil 
weeks," said Mr Valentin 
Gahri drac p , the spokesman. 

The NPPs proposal would 
automatically rule out leading 
members of the Front, like 
Professor Silvia Broun and 
the interim President, Mr Ion 
Oiescu, who previously hdd 
leading posts in the Com¬ 
munist Party. Recent evi¬ 
dence has emerged to show 
that Mr Qiescu, a friend of 
President Gorbachov, who 
spent five years in foe Soviet 
Union, was dose to foe 
Ceausescu family aide at a 
later date than he had pre¬ 
viously admitted. 

• TIMISOARA: This cradle 
of foe revolution has taught 
foe nation another lesson in 
democracy by holding the first 
free'local and regional dec- 
dons in over 40 years (AFP 
reports). Two days after the 
poll, Mr Alexander Roskoban. 
the regional head of the Nat¬ 
ional Salvation Bont, implic¬ 
itly disavowed foe country's 
new leadership by emphasiz¬ 
ing that the Timisoara local 
council and the Timis regional 
body would abide by demo¬ 
cratic rules. 


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Hundreds «f MnmAti a s w ifag rand foe 
fast McDonald's hamburger restaurant (and 
foe b i ggest fa foe wsdd) when it spaaed an 
Gorky Square in Moecew yesterday. P rtwrffs 
of mfafanl qoeaea and service fa seoaods went 
by foe board on the mock-hyped opening day ( 
Mary Dtjetskj writes from Moscow). 

While foe tarnort fir foe opening—several 
hundred carious Muscovites, mfaafag school 
and work to be there — mig ht hove been 
disappointing, the qneaes later fa foe day were 
fearsome. One Muscovite, who stood fa foe 
drizzle for more than two hams, said it was as 

bud as queuing for Lenin's tomb. 

There were many enthusiasts for Moscow's 
newest eating ex perience. A conple of school¬ 
boys said the hamb urgers “tasted beautiful”. 
Others were impressed by foe big paper 
napkins (foe Soviet papa shortage means that 
restaurants cat each napkfa into four small 
squares) and the b ab mM a (elderly woman, 
right) tacked into foe new taste with a wilL 

The office driver of The Timet, however, sent 
out on his first assig n ment, was ffisappofnted 
with the time betwee n placing Us order and 
receiving the food — a fall seven morales. 

“It was chaotic back Acre,” he said. “They 
were ranging backwards and forwards to no 
effect” Although advertising had made much 


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v of foe “single qoese system” — fa most Soviet 
shops and cafes yon queue once to pay and 
again to collect foe goods - he said it stffl took 
twn peojde to serve: me to fetch foe food and 
the other to check. 

Nor was he impressed by foe hamburgers. 
He spent more than seven rafales (£7), abort 
doable what he would pay for a meal fa m Soviet 
cafe, to sample the mean — faefadhg foe 
heavfly prensted “Big Mac” -hat he stin fdt 
haagry. “ Russians like to fed they have 
eaten,” he said. “A hamborger is too tight.” 

He was far from alone in finding the ratio 
between price and substance nasal i sfacto ry . 
The consensus seemed to be that hamburgers 
would not become a habit fa Moscow. But the 
queues are bound to co n ti n ue . The restaurant 
enjoys one of foe best addresses fa Moscow, at 
tiw corner of Gorky Street and Pushkin 
Square, a popular meking place opposite one 
of foe capftaTk biggest cinemas. 

The fast serv i c e reqnfaes not only trained 
a ssistants , bite a trained public. Some of foe 
Soviet eas terner s were so intimidated by the 
sin roondin&s that they tarried annual and left. 
Oftos, bewildered by foe choice on the mens 
and unfamiliar with foe notion of fast food, had 
to ask what everything was, whether it was 
avaQahfc, and what was recommended. 




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Sharansky sees exodus as boost to peace 


Ry Michael Kuqie, Diplomatic Correspondent 


The exodus of Jews from the 
Soviet Union to Israel was 
developing into the biggest 
such migration for several 
centuries, Mr Natan Sha¬ 
ransky said in London yes¬ 
terday, but be discounted 
American. Soviet and Arab 
concerns over its detrimental 
effect on Middle East peace. 

The influx of half a million 
well-educated, highly moti¬ 
vated professionals as new 
immig rants to Israel would 
help bolster the country’s 
sense of security and make it 
more amenable to negotia¬ 
tions, he declared. With East¬ 
ern Europe moving towards 
democracy, the West should 
push for more democracy 
among Israel's neighbours. 

When tte Arab states devel¬ 
oped their own democracies, 
there would be a strong chance 
they would develop their own 
P eace Now movements, their 
own oppositions, their own 
free press — and that would 


make it much easier to nego¬ 
tiate a solution. 

The Russian-born human 
rights activist, who settled in 
land after spending 10 years 
in Soviet jails for his dissiden t 
activities, said the rate of 
arrivals in Israel of Soviet 
Jews bad increased from 500a 
month to 4,000 in the first two 
weeks of last month, and with 
anti-Semitism rising in the 
Soviet Union flights were 
already booked up until 
March next year. 

Hie waiting list was cau¬ 
tiously estimated at half a 
million, and if plans for direct 
Sights to Israel from a number 
of Soviet cities were im- 
plemented there could be 500 
arriving daily — nearly 
200,000 annually. 

Mr Sharansky said the ex¬ 
odus was happening because 
of the anti-Semitism that was 
occurring amid the uncertain¬ 
ties caused by President 
Gorbachov's reforms. “As a 


Communist, he thought that if 
he gave people a little bit of 
freedom they would be so 
grateful they would work bet¬ 
ter. He did not realize, thank 
God, that there is no such 
thing as a tittle bit of 
freedom." 

Hie Soviet Union was now 
in the worst possible situation 
of bring neither totalitarian 
nor free. People needed scape- 



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goats and, from the intellec¬ 
tual to the grassroots level, 
Jews were bring blamed. 
There had not been such a 
dear and pore manifestation 
of anti-Semitism in the Soviet 
Union for many years. 

Soviet Jews, who had been 
absolutely assimilated in the 
Soviet Union and had very 
tittle awarene ss of their Jewish 
religion, had begun to feel very 
insecure, said Mr Sharansky. 

Following remarks by Mr 
Yitzhak Shamir, the Israeli 
Prime Minister, suggesting 
that the new immigrants 
might be settled in the occu¬ 
pied West Bank, both the 
Soviet and US governments 
expressed opposition to such 
action which, they said, would 
create new obstacles to a 
peaceful resolution of the 
Middle East issues. 

This concern was mis¬ 
placed, said Mr Sharansky. 
Israel was a free country and 
nobody could force anyone to 


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settle in any particular place. 
No more than 1 or 2 per cent 
of the new arrivals were 
interested in living in the West 
Bank territory, he said. That 
was 20,000 out of a million. 

Far from creating obstacles 
to peace, the influx of Soviet 
Jews bolstered its prospects. “I 
think foe stronger Israel be¬ 
comes, the more secure Israe¬ 
lis will fed and a feeling of 
security is what is missing 
from the Middle East." 

Mr Sharansky is beading an 
independent campaign to 
raise funds among the Jewish 
diaspora to help finance the 
massive task of absorbing the 
new wave of immigrants into 
Israeli society. 

The Israeli Government is 
hoping to raise S6O0 million 
(£360 million) from the dias¬ 
pora and hoping that $60 
minimi of that will come from 
Britain. Mr Sharansky be¬ 
lieves it will have to think in 
much bigger figures. 


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Genscher insists unified 
Germany stays in Nato 


Heir Hans-Dieirich Genscher, 
the West German Foreign 
Minister, said yesterday that a 
unified Germany must remain 
in Nato. 

In a wide-ranging speech 
looking ahead to a new 
Europe, he foresaw the War¬ 
saw Pact working alongside 
the Western alliance to guar¬ 
antee world, and thus Euro¬ 
pean, security. 

Herr Genscher’s ideas go 
considerably further than 
those of other members of the 
Bonn Government, although 
Herr Alfred Dregger. leader of 
the Christian Democrats in 
the Bundestag, wrote in Die 
Well yesterday, clearly putting 
forward the view of Herr 
Helmut Kohl the West Ger¬ 
man Chancellor, that there 
was no question of West 
Germany leaving Nato after 
unifi cation. 

Herr Genscher, however, 
considerably developed the 
theme. A neutral Germany 
was in nobody’s interest, and a 
reunited country must remain 
in Nato, he said, but Nato 
must not extend its military 
territory to take in present-day 
East Germany. 

The alliance had to avoid 
tatting advantage of the pol¬ 
itical changes in East Europe 
while ensurim that neither 

they nor reunification harmed 
Soviet security interests. 

Speaking to the Evangelical 
Academy at Tutting in Ba¬ 
varia. Iter Genscher charted 
a future in which the two 
formerly confrontational Eu¬ 
ropean defence pacts co-op¬ 
erated with each other. 

The ideas were the most 


From las Murray, Bonn 

advanced yet of what has 
become known in the dip¬ 
lomatic world as “Genscber- 
ism" — the art of exploring 
every avenue of East-Wesr co¬ 
operation in order to further 
detente. 

The key to the problem of a 
unified Germany remaining 
in Nato without harming 
Soviet interests, he said, lay in 
reaching quick agreement at 
the Conventional Forces in 
Europe talks m Vienna. 

Herr Genscher said the first 
Vienna treaty must be fol- 

Bonn — Here Gerhard Stol- 
teuberg, foe West German 
Defence Minister, said last 
night that East German sol¬ 
diers would be allowed to serve 
in foe Bundeswehr, provided 
they could show they were 
property trained and capable 
(Ian Murray writes). Several 
hundred full-time officers and 
men from East Germany have 
applied to join the Bmtdes- 
wehr since the Berlin Wall 
was opened months ago. 

lowed “without pause" by a 
second round of negotiations 
leading to cutbacks that would 
make it impossible for either 
of the two military alliances to 
mount an attack. 

Once military forces were 
reduced!© a defensive role, he 
looked forward to the former 
enemies fanning “co-oper- 
yve security structures". 
A^corthng to one of his aiA -5 
tfas would mean that the two 
sjliancw could form the nu- 

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perhaps under foe United 
Nations, which would guar¬ 


antee global and thus, Euro¬ 
pean, security. 

Beyond disarmament he 
wanted 1990 to be also the 
year in which the Conference 
on Security Co-operation in 
Europe (CSCE) summit met 
and set foe scene for a new 
European peace order from 
tiw Atlantic to the Urals 
within a “common European 
home". 

This tied-in tire two super¬ 
powers. American involve¬ 
ment in CSCE showed it was 
deeply involved in Europe, 
while the Soviet Union was 
geographically very much a 
part of it. Germany's future; 
loo, had to be part of an 
integrated Europe. 

Herr Genscher suggested 10 
new institutions to help the 
integration process. These 
would be: An economic East- 
West co-operation institution, 
involving the proposed Euro¬ 
pean Development Bank; a 
joint European institution for 
guaranteeing human rights, 
with the extension of the 
Council of Europe's Conven¬ 
tion over the whole of the 
Continent; a European “legal 
space” with harmonized laws; 
a European environment 
agency; extension of the Eu- 
reka project (new technology) 
over The whole of Europe; co¬ 
operation of the European 
Space Agency with statable 
East Woe partners; a dev¬ 
elopment centre for a Euro¬ 
pean telecommunications 
structure; a traffic m fi a sa no- : 
fore and policy centre; a 
European arms verification 
centre, and a European centre 
for the study of conflicts. 


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THE TIMES THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1 1990 


COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM 


Serbs serve ultimatum as Kosovo toll rises 




Belgrade 
Efre ethnic Albanians were 

Yugosfevra's Kosovo urov- 
yesterday, the eighth 
«mse*mve day of protest 
Tanjug said thro peotie 
jrare killed in the town of 
Gtogovac, and reporters on 
a fourth person 
5*^ also been ldlfled the*. 
Yugoslav television said 
ptwoe shot dead a protester in 
the town of Stanovac. 

Yugoslav media and rcport- 
05 tn Kosovo say that 26 
people have been kflM 5 ^ 
Albanians took to the sheets 
• lest week d emand ing political 
reforms, although Tanjug has 
reported only 15 death* 

“It is feared that Kosovo is 
on the verge of a dvil war" 
Tanjug said. 

The latest violence came 
after thousan d s of Serbs dem¬ 
onstrated throughout the 
night in front of the Yugoslav 
federal parliament building in 
Belgrade demanding wea p o ns. 

They also shouted abuse at the 

Slovene and Croatian leader¬ 
ships, whom Serbia is accus¬ 
ing of backing the Albanian 
rebellion. 

In Titograd, the capital of 
. Montenegro, thou sand s of 
demonstrators demanded *fa»* 
relations with Slovenia be 
broken off They also de¬ 
manded that an ultimatum be 
sent to the federal presidency 
to restore order wring all 
mans at its disposal, includ¬ 
ing armed force, within 48 

hnirh j i; 

the speakers insisted that, 
if - the Yugoslav federal 
authorities were not capable of 
restoring peace within the 
oven time, they should be 
forced to step down. 

Amid chars, the speakers 





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announced that volunteers 
were ready to move to the 
region in defence, of the Ser¬ 
bian minority there and that 
an armed brigade stood by 
ready to move at a moment's 
notice. 

Belgrade radio said that 
Yugoslavia stood on the brink 
of civil war, while the Serbian 
media kept whipping up 
emotions. 

Every Albanian femfly in 
Kosovo possesses firearms; so 
do the Serbs. 

Meanwhile, fierce fighting 


erupted in the town of 
Podujevo after some 3,000 
Albanians, including women 
with children in their arms, 
tried to push their way to the 
town centre but were dis¬ 
persed by police with tear gas 
and baton charges. 

In Liptjani protest marches 
were quickly dispersed, but 
after a few hours the molesters 
regrouped again. Cars and 
trains were being stoned by 
demonstrators and roads were 
being blocked. 

Villages inhabited by Serbs 


are guarded by police; while 
the villagers keep armed vigjL 
Albanian peasants have 
joined the protest and dem¬ 
onstrators are finding shelter 
in the wooded mountain vil¬ 
lages where fierce fighting was 
reported yesterday. 

The Kosovo region is 
becoming an open wound 
which threatens to bleed 
Yugoslavia to death. 

The Albanian demon¬ 
strators are demanding 
democracy and a multi-party 
system, such as is being le¬ 


galized in other parts of 
Yugoslavia. They are also 
demanding free elections. 

The collapse of the Yugo¬ 
slav communist party's con¬ 
gress and the disarray in the 
ranks of Yugoslavia’s feuding 
communists have provided an 
impetus for the Albanians in 
the region to seek equal status 
for themselves. 

Given a choice, the 'Alba¬ 
nians would without any 
doubt vote for their own 
leaders, such as the Demo¬ 
cratic Alliance of Kosovo, 


which has increased its 
membership to almost 
200,000 in less than a month. 

However, such a possibility 
is for the time being excluded 
by Mr Slobodan Milosevic, 
the Serbian leader, who re¬ 
mains set against giving any 
political institutions to the 
Albanians. Barred from part¬ 
icipating in political life, the 
Albanians have no other op¬ 
tion but to take to the streets 
and protest In feet they have 
been doing so ever since 
Serbia took over control of the 


region. However, at this 
particular time they are play¬ 
ing into the hands of Mr 
Milosevic, whose popularity 
has been lading. 

Serbian intellectuals have 
become disillusioned because 
of his reluctance to accept 
political pluralism, while Ser¬ 
bian nationalist extremists ac¬ 
cuse him of not being firm 
enough in Kosovo. 

The unrest in the region 
provides Mr Milosevic with a 
welcome opportunity to re¬ 
store his popularity. 

But in Slovenia the Kosovo 
repression has been con¬ 
demned by all, including the 
local communist party 
leaders. 

Slovenia and Croatia have 
called for an emergency meet¬ 
ing of the federal authorities, 
while in Kosovo Albanian 
militants are pledging to go on 
fighting to the last. 

The view in the northern 
republics—shared by Western 
diplomats — is that Mr 
Milosevic’s intransigence and 
reliance on repression only 
has thrown away any possibil¬ 
ity of finding a way out of the 
Kosovo problem. 

The Albanians feel that they 
arc under Serbian occupation 
and, denied legal opposition 
and with an imposed leader¬ 
ship, they see their only 
chance in protest. 

“If the Serbs do not relax 
their reign, Albanians would 
have no choice but to take to 
the hills," an Albanian dis¬ 
sident said. 

“Unless Milosevic accepts a 
dialogue with true Albanian 
representatives who enjoy 
popular trust, Serbia — and 
.with it Yugoslavia — win be 
thrown into bloody and pro¬ 
tracted dvil war, which it 
could never win," a 'Western 
diplomat predicted. 


Urgent 

surgery 

on Glemp 


From A Correspondent 
Warsaw 

Cardinal Jozef Glemp, the 
head of the Roman Catholic 
Church in Poland, was in a 
serious condition yesterday 
after two emergency opera¬ 
tions to stop internal bleeding. 

Mgr Glemp, aged 61, was 
rushed from his palace to 
hospital on Tuesday morning, 
where an immediate opera¬ 
tion was performed to stop 
gastro-inlestinal bleeding. 

A communique from the 
Polish Primate's secretariat 
said that during the night be 
had had a second operation. 

A medical source at the 
hospital said that the situation 
was critical overnight and that 
“the cardinal is far from 
stable". President Jaruzelsb, 
who frequently met Cardinal 
Glemp during the recent tur¬ 
bulent years in Poland, visited 
him in hospital yesterday. 

Cardinal Glemp has been 
bead of the Polish Church 
since 1981 after the death of 
Pairiinat Stefan WyszynskL 
He underwent successful sur¬ 
gery for a gall bladder problem 
two years ago. 

His policy of moderation in 
dealing with tiie communists 
over the past eight years 
angered many militants in the 
Solidarity fine trade union 
movement, but he had the 
support of Mr Lech Walesa, 
the Solidarity leader. 

His patience and regular 
contacts with General Jaruz- 
elski, the former communist 
party leader who is now the 
head of state; brought success 
for the Church, whose pos¬ 
ition in Poland was officially 
recognized last year. 






Cubans face the 
prickly realities 
of isolationism 


By Charles Brenner 


Beards, long the insignia of 
President Castro and his guer¬ 
rilla comrades, have just made 
a comeback in Cuba. The 
reason, however, is noffesh- 
idtt Jbut necessity. 

X Soviet ship' carrying 103 
minion “Sput cik” Hades des¬ 
tined for Cuban chins failed to 
turn up in Havana in Decem¬ 
ber, provoking a severe short¬ 
age and forcing many men to 
stop shaving or sharpen used 
blades. The ship has now 
sailed in but Sefior Rigoberto 
Fernandez, the Deputy Trade 
Minister, soured the good 
news by going on the radio to 
say that be bad no idea when 
the next load would come. 

A lack of “Sputniks” is just 
one facet of the crisis now 
being endured in Cuba as 
President Castro's tropical is¬ 
land strokes to go it alone as 
a strong h ol d of orthodox. 
Leninism. like the waves 
smashing on to the Malecon, 
Havana's majestic old sea¬ 
front, the upheaval in the 
communist world is pounding 



Castro: Confident he will 
other the Gorbachov era. 
h the economy of Cuba 
[ some of its leaders' 
victions. ___ 

We had a very difficult 
ation when we started our 
olution, but this is the most 
icult since then,” says Se- 
Jos 6 Antonio Arbesu, 
fa's chief representative in 
shington. But foreign mp- 
tats, as well as critical allies 
Nicaragua's Sandinista 
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es in Eastern Europe, 
hough effectively a dfo- 
Fidel - as he is w idely 
1 - still enjoys great 
tv as the leader who 
r out the Americans and 

his impoverished coun- 

modicum of welfere as 
ts prestige in the worW. 
e “maximum leader”has 
varned his people that 
he call* the^amm^ 
of the socialist owe 


imums that Cuba feces “total 
uncertainty" about its tra¬ 
ditional econ om ic ties with 
Moscow and Eastern Europe. 

There is little meat, poultry, 
flour or: m3k available m 
Havana. In 'this- season of 
traditional abundance in the 
Caribbean, fish has all but 
dis ap pe ar ed from the shops 
and fruit and vegetables are 
rarely to be seen. Today, the 
daily bread ration is being 
reduced from 7oz. to less than 
6 oz. per household and the 
price of a loaf in Havana 
boosted by 30 per cent The 
Russians are to Marne again, 
say the Cubans, because 
Soviet strips have failed for the 
first time in 20 years to deliver 
wheat and flour. 

Apart from the diminution 
of Eastern Woe food and 
consumer goods on which 
Cuba depoids, the Soviet 
Union has cut heavily the 
supplies of its cheap oil which 
Aids all the nation's vehicles 
and which Cuba traditionally 
also re-exports for hard 
currency. 

Havana taxi driven have 
been told to expect the worst. 
The other big Soviet subsidy— 
the high payment Moscow 
makes for Cuban sugar — is 
also on its way out, say Soviet 
officials. 

More bad tidings came last 
month when the Comecon 
trading Woe decided to switch 
to haid-currency trading. Ap¬ 
proximately 80 per cent of 
Cuba's exports now go to 
Eastern bloc countries under 
the Comecon barter system. 

Yet another blow was dealt 
by the US invasion of Pan¬ 
ama. Under General Manuel 
Noriega, Cuba set up a string 
of front companies to handle 
exports ami imports, ena bl i n g 
Havana to side-step the US 
embargo. 

The big question for Presi¬ 
dent Castro's Latin sympath¬ 
izers as weD as his A meri ca n 
foes is how long he can fend 
off the forces of change, as 
pledged in the big slogan now 
seen in Havana: “Cuba would 
rather sink in the sea than take 
down the banner of revolution 
and socialism". 

“Fidel wants to do th i ngs 
his way and he is sore he will 
be proved right," says a 
Nicaraguan official “He is 
also convinced that he will 
survive Gorbachov.” 

A US State Department 
expert agreed that Dr Castro 
was different from the com¬ 
munist leaders of Eastern 
Europe: “There isn't even 
graffiti on the walls. We don’t 
foink Cuba is threatened to 
the degree East Europe was.” 


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PARLIAMENT 


Government will 


make statement 
on Wallace case 


Mr Tom King, Secretary 
of State for Defence, will 
make a statement to¬ 
morrow on disinform¬ 
ation in Northern Ire¬ 
land and the Colin 
Wallace affair. 

MPs said that the wide 
and serious implications 
of the matter meant that 
other ministers should be 
involved. 

There were calls for the Prime 
Minister to answer questions on 
the matter. 

The issue was raised by Dr 
John C unningham, shadow 
Leader of the House, who said 
that an argent statement was 
required on the scandal after the 
news that the House, and MPs, 
had been misled in answers and 
correspondence. 

It might be a ppropri ate for Mr 

King to make the statement, but 
there were wider implications in 
this sordid affair than solely 
matters of the Ministry of 
Defence. 

Sfr Geoffrey Howe, Leader of 
the House, said that Mr King 
would make the statement 

Mr Tony Bean (Chesterfield, 
Lab) said that after 20 years of 
disinformation the Government 
had now admitted for the first 
time that it had occurred. 

This had branded and black¬ 
ened the reputation of Mr 
Edward Heath, Dr David Owen, 


DEFENCE 


Lord Wilson of Rievanlx, Lord 
Callaghan of Cardiff; Mr Stanley 
Orme, Mr Denis Healey and Mr 
Meriyn Rees. It was a constitu¬ 
tional issue. 

Colin Wallace should be 
brought to a committee in 
Parliament — as Colonel Oliver 
North had before Congress — 
free from the threat of prosecu¬ 
tion under the new official 
secrets legislation. 

Mr Merfyn Rees (Leeds 
South and Moriey, Lab) said 
that there were implications for 
the Northern Ireland Office and 
other government departments. 
Other secretaries of state should 
he present dnrw i g ^ ff af p n ffl t , 

Mr Jonathan Aitkin (Thanet 
Sooth, Q said that the Prime 
Minister's press secretary had 
indicated that it was possible 
that she might have been misled 
by a previous statement made 
by civil servants to her, as a 
result of which a parliamentary 
answer had been given. 

If that was correct and if the 
security services were involved, 
that would not be a matter for 
the Secretary of State for De¬ 
fence, who had no ministerial 
responsibiliiy for the security 
services. 

If a wrong parliamentary 
answer had been given by the 
Prime Minister, rt would not be 
within the ambit of the Ministry 


ofDefence that the statement be 
made. Wider constitutional is¬ 
sues were involved. Would the 
Leader of the House consider 
whether different ministers 
should take part? 

Mr Sen Livingstone (Brent 
East, Lab) said that he had 
received a letter from die Under 
Secretary of State far Defence; 
which admitted that allegations 
he had relating to o fficial 
documents about the use of 
anny officers to plant hoax 
bombs were true. 

The statement proposed was j 
not good enough. He had raised 
tire issue with the Prime Min- I 
ister and had received denials i 
from her. 

“I know from my own re¬ 
search that an entire dossier 
listing eveiy one of these allega¬ 
tions was delivered on behalfof 
Colin Wallace to the Prime 
Minister in November 1984.” 

The Prime Minister should 
come before the House to 
answer questions “because she 
is the main beneficiary of this 
treason and she is the main 
architect...” 

The Speaker (Mr Bernard 
Weafoerm): He must not make 
allegations of that kind. 

Mr Michael Marshall (Arun¬ 
del, O said that be had been 
asking questions for seven years 
on behalf of Mr Wallace who 
was one of his constituents. It 
was essential to have the state¬ 
ment from the Ministry of 
Defence before considering 
other matters. 


Boost for training plan 


The response from business 
leaden to the new Training and 
Enterprise Councils had been 
magnificent and the national 
netwoik is expected to be com¬ 
pleted well ahead of schedule, 
£®rf Strathclyde, Under Sec¬ 
retary of Stale fra- Employment, 
told the House of Loras. Al¬ 
ready 55 of the SO councils have 
been setup. 

He was speaking in a debate 
opened for the Labour oppo¬ 
sition by Lord Pestsn, who said 
that the Government, in catting 
training expenditure, had taken 
leave of its senses. 

He feared the em ergence of a 
“cult of mediocrity”. While they 
must press for greater efficiency 
in the use of existing reso urc es, 
they could not get for without 
committing a good deal more. 

Over the past decade, edu¬ 
cation expenditure had fan^n, 


relative to total public expen¬ 
diture and gross domestic 
product. 

“We are getting education on 
tfcedieap, cm tire backs of our 
teachers. No one can be happy 
with the lack of of provision of 
up-to-date school books, or with 
the poor state of the libraries.” 

Pubbc funds were being 
committed to the City Technol¬ 
ogy Colleges when neighbouring 
schools were badly neglected- 

The Government did not care 
for univena ties and was un¬ 
appreciative of the contribu¬ 
tions of great academics. If the 
public was once persuaded to 
settle for mediocrity it would be 
band, if not impossible, to 
restore the old standards. 

Lord Strathclyde said that 
there had never been a time 
when education and training 
bad been more central to the 


continued economic success of 
the country. 

“Competitors in the develop¬ 
ing nations wiH continue to have 
a plentiful supply of cheap 
labour. We cannot compete on 
their terms. 

“Our continued prosperity 
depends on ns becoming more 
and more an economy of high 
productivity, high skills and 
h^h wages —but only if they are 
earned. The alternative is low 
productivity, low skills and high 
unemployment” 

They must create a flexible, 
wdl motivated and multi- 
skilled workforce. 

Fyii of the Training and 

Enterprise Councils would have 
the freedom and resources—on 
average abort £20 miUion a year 
— to shape training provision 
and business growth services to 
local needs. 





Mr Patten 


Liberal Democrat motion 


Tories and Labour 


The Conservative and Laboar parties 
were both severely cr iti c iz ed Cor their 
attitude to Europe by Mr Faddy 
Ashdown, leader of the Liberal 
Democrats. 

He called for mere power for the 
Earopean P ar liam e nt ad km for the 
Eurocrats fa Brussels. A European 
central hank he said, worid prevent the 
sticky hands of Conservatives and 

Talmm iniii^fa— i—igihthgHwpi n. 

omy to who votes. 

Mr Askdotv* said that there was a 
serious split reside the C o nservat i ve 
Parte and the Cabinet over the fstare of 
the Earopean Canmmnity and develop¬ 
ments in Eastern Europe. 

He moved a Libera! Democrat motion 
welcoming recent progress towards 
liberal democracy to Eastern and central 
Earope and foe progress towards pol¬ 
itical and economic 
EC Economic and 
with the C o m aunity was not 
bat of the deepest 
to every titiran fa the United; 

The EC had, for a start, forced the 
Goverment to fine toe environmental 
_ it to improve water 
and ■pin, the Euro- 
Csort had defended the rights and 
of British dtitens. Increasingly, 
it woald Brands that wooM bring shoot 
the free market. 

Britain's ability to “sink or swim” in 


in the 


1992 would decide whether this co untr y 
prospered or dne-iraed. We most join to 
the emerging Earopeaa mrity and dascr 
integration as the only nay to protect 
long-term interests. It was the attitude of 
the Goranmert and the Labour Parte 
towards the new Eanme that marked 
them as the parties of the past rather 
than of the More. 

There had to be a aew distribution of 
power. Faftiameats should be estab¬ 
lished in Wafas and Scotland as port of 
that new dis tributi on. They should 
strengthen the powers of the European 
Partismest instead arriving more power 
to the Eurocrats m Brussels or to the 
Coondl of Mttsters. 

A central bank was a key issue in 
economi c and monetary union in Earope 
proposed by the Defers report, not ill of 
which they agreed with. 

liberal Democrats had no di ffle nity 
accepting the concept of a central bank, 
one that was organized aloes the Uses of 
the BradesbauL But the United King¬ 
dom was isolated on the bane with both 
toe Conservative and Laboar parties 
opposed to it. 

They were apposed because they 
would do anything to maintain for 
themselves the power to fiddle the 
economy to win votes: the Mine 
Minister's capacity to debauch the 
e c on om y before the last election. 

They had nothing to fear from the 


‘wrong on Europe’ 


concept of a central hank if it kept 
politicians’ sticky hands off the controls 
of the economy to win rotes when a price 
had to be paid latte. 

There was a severe danger that Britain 
would be left isolated hi the process of 
e conomi c onion and a risk that die other 
11 cowries would go ahead without her. 

labour had fomd somethin in 
Earope it could agree with: the social 
charter. Bat they mast not allow it to 
take them back to the days of a 
corpantist state. 

Those like the Prime Minister, who 
believed this moment hi Earope was a 
time to backtrack, were both nowise and 
dangerous. 

No ether nation took the same view as 
the Prime Minister that the time was 
right to halt the process of integration. 
The argument aboat whether to widen or 
deepen the Community was nonsense. 
The two were comple m ent ar y . 

Those escaping from the East did not 
say that they wanted Conservatism or 
Thatcherism. The words on then lips 
were “HberaT' and “democracy”. They 
wanted a system of politics that valued 
hnman rights, counnmuty and repre¬ 
sentative government. 

With toe hoge opportunities came 
immense dangers. It was time for 
pragmatism, not grand designs. 

The peace of Earope for 46 years had 
been kept by two standing armies on the 


brink of war. Work most new start to 
establish a aew shape for Earope, which 
would probably nofindade the station¬ 
ing of US or Soviet troops there. The 
twit ahead was the redrafting of toe 
collective security of Europe. 

Bat that most not include the precip¬ 
itate digmantirog of Nato or toe Warsaw 
Pact. This was not a time for unilateral 
action hot for working with Earopean 

partners. In die transition phase at kasL 
the structures of toe Warsaw Pact and 
Nato w ould be v ital. They would be^the 

have to’te^ratched, T^riT*^riy and 
precipitate dtemutilng woald be very 

nprtaMlfofwg - 

Afr Fronds Maude, Minister of State, 
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, said 
that toe Government had no quarrel with 
toe motion. 

The epic phase of the revelation in 
Easten Europe was probably complete. 
Democracy amid not be created over¬ 
night. What was needed was the 
recreation of civil society. Eastern 
Earope wanted capitalist structures. Bat 
market economies went hand m band 
with democracy. 

Fandamentol would be to ghe free rate 
to the law of sappiy and demand. There 
mast be a legal framework for favest- 
swm, bankers operating mider commer¬ 
cial criteria. They would need l a wyer s, 
accountants and entrepreneurs. 


Soccer solution ‘must not be imposed’ 


of a Commons 
ayior report on the 


the 


The _ 
debate on 
H 

in later editions yesterday. 

Mr Roy Hattersfcy l 
debate, supported the t 
football ri adi u ms but said that the 
Government could not impose them 
and must consult folly. The Home 
Secretary and the Government had to 
show a spirit of co-operation. 

“If progress is to be made to all-seat 
stadiums, the Government has to take 
the game with it rather than attempt to 
impose its will on it”, he said. ‘Tt is 
important the opportunity Taylor pro¬ 
vides is not missed by arbitrary and 
authoritarian action.” 

Mr David Waddington, Home Sec¬ 
retary, said that toe Government was 
determined to see a great change in toe 
way the football was managed surd a 
vast improvement in toe way that dobs 
treated their customers. 

Mr Hattersley, chief Opposition 
spokesman on home affairs, moved a 
motion welcoming the report of Lord 
Justice Taylor as toe basis for improve¬ 
ments to the oiganasuxm of football, 
urging discussions with clubs and 
supporters about toe cost and advisabil¬ 
ity of all-seat grounds, and calling for a 
reduction in toe pools betting levy to its 
pre-1982 level to pay for improved 
ground facilities. 

He said that the proposals for a 
membership-card scheme bad been a 
diversion that delayed real progress on 
improvements for two years. Labour 



Mr Hattersley: Arbitrary and 

aut h o ri tarian action win not help. 

would support a more vigorous use of 
exclusion orders to keep hooligans away 
from the game. 

There was a desperate need for an 
improvement in the organization of 
football, aral of theigrounds in which the 
game was played, was the Government 
prepared to assist in making that 
progress, or would h prefer to strike 


another tough posture, to cover its 
embar rassment over tire identity-card 
fiasco? 

He would be prepared to see football 
dubs go bankrupt, and tire game 
changed out of all recognition, if that 
was the only way of protecting lives, 
avoiding injury mid preventing hooli¬ 
ganism. But that would not just be 
achieved by the Government’s 
announcing that all football grounds 
must introduce seals within 10 years. 
Hie problem was for more compter. 

“I have no wish to stand on the 
terraces any more", he said. “I am 
passiona t ely enthusiastic fora seat to be 
omilariy available to everybody who 
wants it, but there are a substantial 
number of law-abiding supporters who 
prefer to stand rather than sit down. The 
police regard standing in seated areas as 
a for greater threat to safety, to order and 
to good conduct of tire game than 
standing cm terraces.” 

“I believe tire sensible conversion of 
football grounds into 100 per cent 
seating is in the long run right and 
irresistible. We should encourage a 


speeding up of that process,” He i 
“But also I believe nothing but harm can 


come from ar bi trar y and authoritarian 
edicts which will offend supporters and 
destroy a vital part of the game”. 

Mr Waddington said that the Oppo¬ 
sition response to Taylor had been 
nothing short of pathetic If what Mr 
Hattersley had said was tire authentic 
fk*crftoe labour Party, the world could 
see it as a party for whom no problem 


was so grave that it could not be doctoed. 
Taylor had made the advisability of all¬ 
seat grounds dear, but Mr Hattersley 
merely urged dubs to ask themselves 
whether, even now, they needed to take 
action, or whether they should hold out 
the begging bowl to the taxpayer. 

He did not say that there was not a 
care for more money to go into tire game 
from tire pools promoters, but a change 
in tax which benefited pools promoters 
would not necessarily benefit football 
which could put to better use the £18 
million it received from television; the 
£8 million from the pools promoters and 
tire £75 million which the Football Trust 
had promised over the next 10 years. 

Mr Tom Panfry (Stalybridge and 
Hyde, Lab), chairman of the all-party 
football committee, said that the Gov¬ 
ernment should bring forward a Green 
Paper as a basis of discussion. The 
Taylor report would be pie in the sky 
unless toe Government recognized tire 
urgent need for a cash injection. 

Mr Deals Howell Oppoitioo spokes¬ 
man on sports, said that the Govern¬ 
ment should reduce the 42.5jp iu the 
pound it took from the football pools to 
offset the cost of ground improvements. 

Mr Odin Moynihan, Minister for 
Sport, said that the proposal for a 
membership scheme would be “pat on 
the back burner”. The problem of 
football hooliganism had not gone away 
and there was a national membership 
scheme still available.. 

Tire motion was rejected by 277 votes 
to 210 — Government majority, 67. 


Tax increase ‘less 
than predicted’ 


Increases in the community 
charge in Scotland for toe 
coming financial year were less 
than many fecal authorities had 
predicted, Mr Malcolm Rffland, 
Secretary of State for Scotland, 
said at question time. 

Increases would have been 
even less, be said, if many 
Labour-controlled local authori¬ 
ties had not used their substan¬ 
tially increased grant to increase 
spending rather than to reduce 
the charge. 

He added that Labour au¬ 
thorities appeared incapable of 
maintaining services without 
increases in local taxation, un¬ 
like non-socialist authorities, 
which seemed able to maintain 
services by better management 
and better value for money. 

He was responding to Sir 
David Steel (Tweeddale, Ettrick 
and Lauderdale, Lib Dcm), who 
had said that toe average Scot¬ 
tish poll tax would rise by 9.1 
per cent with some increases of 
15 percent In view of that how 
would toe Government main¬ 
tain to pensioners and am¬ 
bulancemen that toe rise in the 
cost of living was 6.5 percent? 

Mr Dennis Cana van (Falkirk 
West, Lab) said that in some 
authorities the poll tax would be 


SCOTLAND 


more than £400. Even with 
maximum rebate, people on 
soda! security and students who 
might have no grants would be 
expected to pay £100. “Is it any 
wonder that at least 500,000 
people are refusing to pay?” 

Mr Rifldnd said that Mr 
Cana van’s sympathy for those 
on few incomes would be more 
impressive if he. on a very 
substantial income, were pre¬ 
pared to pay toe tax. 

During later questions, Mr 
Richard Douglas (Dunfermline 
West, Lab) said that no matter 
bow much the Government 
tiied to tinker with toe poll tax, 
it represented an onerous and 
unfair burden on poorer people. 

As they were in the season of 
Robert Burns, he would para¬ 
phrase the neat man: “Thev’d 
break our backs for Maggie’s 
tax. such a parcel of rogues in a 
nation.” 

Amid laughter. Lord James 
Dongfes-Hamiltoo, Under Sec¬ 
retary of State for Scotland, 
commented: “Robert Bums 
himself was an exciseman and 
knew all about tax.” 


Warning 
for Scots 
taxpayers 

Taxpayers in Scotland' were 
warned by tire Secretary of State 
at question time that devolution 
of power to an assembly in 
Edinburgh would lead to a sharp 
increase in income tax simply to 
keep public spending pro¬ 
grammes at their present levcL 

Mr Malcolm Rifkind told the 
House that toe current levd of 
public expenditure rear capita in 
Scotland was £1,771 and by 
1992 it was expected to be 
£2,047. 

Sir Nicholas Frirbrirn (Perth 
and Kinross, Ck Wonld.be lose 
no opportunity to remind the 
people who live in Scotland, of 
whatever race, that they benefit 
to an extent that nobody else 
does in the United Kingdom in 
all programmes of expenditure, 
ana that if they were to couader 
anything so foolish as a socialist 
government convention, as¬ 
sembly or independence, they 
would be deprived of a level of 
living which we, uniquely, have 
in Western Europe? 

Mr PHtrimt ^fmt he 

agreed with tire sentiment be¬ 
hind the question, but it was not 
entirely correct because the levd 
of expenditure in Northern Ire¬ 
land was actually higher than in 
Scotland. It was correct that 
public expenditure in Scotland 
was considerably higher, per 
capita, than England or Wales. 


MPs want tax aid 
for part-time work 


SheOa Gtnm 
Reporter 

A higher status should be given 
to part-time workers, who axe 
usually women, with better tax 
and pension provisions, toe 
Commons employment com¬ 
mittee recommended yesterday. 

It said that the, poor image of 
part-time work is u nne cess ar y 
and undesirable, encouraging a 
prejudice in fevour of foil-time 
employment. 

However, the r ep ort stops 
short of reco mm ending the 
extension of statutory employ¬ 
ment rights to part-time 
workers. 

The cross-party committee 
and the witnesses who gave 
evidence were divided on 
whether the law should be 
changed. 

“There are thus those who 
believe that the leg i sl a t ive 
framework should remain un¬ 
altered and that market forces 
mean that employers who need 
labour will increasingly offer 
their pan-lime workers the same 
terms and conditions as full¬ 
time workers", the report says. 

One member. Mr Grevfile 
Janncr, Labour MP for Leicester 
West, deplored the absence of 
recommendations to extend the 
protection given to part-time 
employees. He said that almost 
alone m Europe we treated part- 
time employees as secood-dass 


EMPLOYMENT 


workers. He added: “It is outra¬ 
geous .foot a considerable 
proportion of our work force is 
unprotected apnm unfair dis¬ 
missal, has so fflinimmii redun¬ 
dancy rights, and no maternity 
leave.” 

Mr Ron Leighton, the Labour 
chairman, sard that recom¬ 
mendations to fhawy the law to 
protect part-time workers were 
deliberately left out by the 
committee. 

“It was perfectly plain from 
oar discussions thn» there was a 
fundamental division within the 
committee and we thought it 
was sensible to say so.” 

More than five million people 
now work pan time, mos 

women in low-paid unprotect_ 

jobs. The report called for a 
more positive attitude, particu¬ 
larly from the Department of 
Employment, to the benefits of 
flexible working hours and away 
fr om th e rigidity of toe present 
system. 

With the shortage of skilled 
laboar, there oeededto be a shift 
in the economy t o war ds dif¬ 
ferent paneras of working such 
as job-sharing. 

House of Commons Employ- 
mem Committee Second Report- 
Part-time work (Stationery Of¬ 
fice; £5.60). 


Labour campaigns for rebates 


By PiuGp Webster, Chief Political Correspondent 


The Laboar Party b ro ac he d ■ 
campaign yesterday to protect 
pc&ple against what it called tbe 
“foil ravages” of the pofl tax. 

It published moves de signed 
to ensare that eve ry o n e entitled 
to community charges rebates 
receives them. 

Mr Bryan Gocdd, shadow 
Secretary of State for foe 
Environment, toU a press con¬ 
ference at Westminster that foe 
poll eatr was anathema to Inb* 
oar. But foe party had a doty to 
do all it could to protect people 
against “this very and 

damag in g tax”. 



U gov¬ 
ernment spokesman, said: “En¬ 
suring that everyone entitled to a 
pofl tax rebate claims and 


receives it vrfll be a vital task for 
local authorities. 

“Maximizing fake-op will 
btip to offset foe foil impact of 
tbe pofl tax on those least able to 

afford it, while demonstrating 
foal Laboar is committed to 
combating the worst effects of 
foe tax.” 

Mr Blanket! accused tbe Gov¬ 
ernment of wasting £4.5 million 
of taxpayers" money on a “mis- 
prided and largely onhelpfal” 
poll-tax propaganda campaign, 
ft had confused the pablfe and 
added to foe harden of already 
overstretched councils. 

Evidence from around the 
showed that the cam- 
foiled to have any real 
on tbe take-up of bene¬ 
fits. Tbe money could have been 
used more wisely and effectively 







Mr Gould: Party’s duty to 
protect people 

If It had been made available to 
local Cornells and advice agen¬ 
cies who knew their com- 
monities. 

Laboar has produced an ac¬ 


tion checklist for Its councillors 
orgmg them to distribute leaflets 
to residents and advertise the 
existence of rebates in local 
press and radio and to provide 
telephone hot-lines and posters; 
to str e a m l in e the arrange meats 
for claiming rebates; and to 
encourage early applications be¬ 
fore the poll tax replaces domes¬ 
tic rates on April 1. 

It also advises the appoint¬ 
ment of a rebate liaison officer to 
ensure co-operation between 
cooncus and toe Department of 
Social Security, and suggests 
that authorities should set tar¬ 
gets for levels of take-up. 

It calls for the promotion of 
toe take-up of transitional relief 
particularly for non-ratepayers. 

Laboar wants councillors to 
lew the action pack during the 
rebate campaign from February 

5 (O 1 


Britain ‘in peril of being marginalized In 1992’ 

Britain is mtfaMtrfTi^mxremalizedfe Britain's likely performance after 1992 and Strathclyde and 


Britain is in 
toe run-up to 1992 m 

backward, according to a--— 

report prep ared for the European Com¬ 


mission 

The 


HUamsou writes), 

report, which was disclosed by toe 
Labour Party at a press conference at 
Westminster vesterday. compares the 
readiness of different regions for 1992 and 
Britain, with Spain, firmly at toe 

-ofEurope’s technology anatraining 

league. 

It also dec lare s ttsdf pessimistic about 


Britain s likely performance after 1992 and 
finds that British income per head is a fifth 

below the Earopean average. 

The report, which was prepared by the 
University of Louvain, further highlights 
technological backwardness in Britain, 
which it says would lead, to few growth 
potential, and finds “training not in touch 
with technical developments . 

_ Under-investment in transport and 
infrastructure, it adds, will lead 10 British 
regions being marginalircd. 

The report, which looked specifically ai 


Strathclyde and South Yorkshire e™ 
d***™* 5 Jo technological 

EHSS?** s,cm from a reluctance 

to invest m research and development^ 

; * 1r . Gord ? n Br °wn, Labour’s trade and 

i5Si , il?i ry »S? > <^7 ian * to Mr Nicholas 
Ridley, the bccrciary of Stale, yesterday 

SSSTiEJ? propp® ‘O do St toe 

f3*\* ^ nm conclusions . Mr Brown 
told toe press conference: “The reSS 
demonstrates ihe absurdity of Tue2£\ 


Gallows is 
still being 
tested 

The only gallows left in 
Britain—at Wandsworth 
Prison, London — last 
used on September 8,1961, is 
still examined and tested 
every six months, Mr John 
Patten, Minister of State, 
Home Office, said in a Com¬ 
mons written reply. The 
testing was undertaken by 
checking the equipment to 
see that it functioned cor¬ 
rectly. 

He said that the death 
penalty was still available for 
offences of treason, piracy 
with violence, and certain 
treasonable and mutinous 
offences, re-enacted under the 
Armed Forces Act, 1971. 

Inexperienced 
drivers 

A Bill to stop newly quali¬ 
fied drivers from driving cars 
of more than l.OOOocfor 
12 months after passing their 
test was introduced in the 
Commons. 

Mr Simon Burns 
(Chelmsford, Q said that the 
Newly Qualified Drivers 
Bill would oblige such drivers 
to display a plate showing 
their inexperience and restrict 
the number of passengers 
they could cany to two. 

NHS cash for 
Scotland 

Health service spending 
was £552 a hestiin Scotland 
Ust year, compared to 
£205 in 1979, a rise of 34 per 
cent in real terms, Mr 
Malcolm Rifkind, Secretary « 
State for Scotland, *««t at 

questions. 

In the same period, foe 
number of in-patients bring 
treated was up by more 
than 20 per cent, out-patients. 
12 percent, and day pa¬ 
tients, 119 per cent, be said. 

Development 

budget 

Next year’s budget for the 
Scottish Development Agency 
would be £180 million, & 
largest it had ever had , Mrltf 
Long, Minister of State far. 
Scotland, said during Scottish 
questions. 

Parliament today 

lions: Northern Ireland; 

Prime Minister, Statement 
by Secretary of State for De¬ 
fence on disinformation m 
Northern Ireland. Debate on 

Commons procedure. Pri¬ 
vate Bills. 

Lonfa ( 3 ): Courts and Lo- 
gal Services Bifl. conmfoWv 
fifth day. 


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SPECTRUM 


New referee 


fora 




■■■■the TiMEsmmmm 

PROFILE 


ARTHUR SANDFORD 


ntQ yesterday, there 
was a sign proclaiming 
“Blessed are the 
Peacemakers” over 
tbs door leading into 
the chief executive’s office in 
Nottingham County HalL But 
Arthur Sandford has taken it with 
him to his new post as chief 
.executive of England’s Football 
League, which he takes up today. 

It is debatable bow appropriate 
die motto is for anyone taking up 
such a job only three days after the 
publication of the Taylor report 
into last year’s Hillsborough trag¬ 
edy. If the game's first reaction to 
the report’s disapproval of the 
Government’s ID card scheme 
was euphoric, a closer look 
brought the realization that the 
whole basis of professional foot¬ 
ball in this country was under 
threat. 

The report leaves football or, 
more realistically, the 92 dubs for 
which Sandford will be respon¬ 
sible, facing the task of finding an 
estimated £130 million to make 
the improvements necessary to 
tom decaying 19th-century struc¬ 
tures into safe all-sealer stadiums 
fit for the 21st century. 

And that is only Sandfonfs first 
problem. Hooliganism is, at best, 
under control, rather than con¬ 
quered. The English dubs’ contin¬ 
uing exclu s i o n from European 
competition, a problem whose 
resolution may require the Gov¬ 
ernment’s active goodwill — and 
there is no sign of that in the offing 

is a running sore on the body of 
die domestic game, and preparing 
for 1992 is becoming a pressing 
need. 

In itself that list would be 
formidable, were the league a 
united body. Notoriously it is not 
Quarrels over money between the 
small group of rich dubs and the 
rest are a constant factor, leading 
to continual threats of a break¬ 
away “Super League”. 

Even Sandfonfs appointment. 


although finally unanimous, took 
months of public bickering which 
at times threatened the survival of 
Bill Fox, the league president, to 
whom Sandford wfll be respon¬ 
sible. 

Many people surveying Sand- 
ford’s inheritance would decide 
that a capacity for knocking heads 

together might be of more use than 

an ability to make peace. Sandford 
has retorted that “Blessed are the 
Peacemakers” does not mean 
“Blessed are the Compromisers”, 
ami his dose associates are in no 
doubt that behind the slightly 
worried expression there is a 
manager of high calibre. 

He has the classic background 
for a local government officer, and 
indeed football league admin¬ 
istrator — the bright, working class 
grammar school boy. Sandford, 
the son of a Lancashire shuttle- 
maker, passed the 11-plus to go to 
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar 
School, Blackburn, one of the 
North's outstanding grammar 
schools. It was — and is — a 
famous soccer school, bnt 
Sandfonfs main claim to sporting 
feme in his schooldays was as a 
runner when he was IS he won 
the Lancashire junior half -mile 
championship. But his back¬ 
ground made an interest in foot¬ 
ball almost obligatory. 

There is a photograph of 
Sandford, at the age of six or 
seven, dressed as the mascot for 
Blackburn St Matthews, his unde 
Harry’s church team. Along with 
many of his peers he stood behind 
the goal at Ewood Park to watch 
Blackburn Rovers, the local dub, 
which was then in the first 
division. A little later he played 
dub cricket in the same ti-am as 
Bryan Douglas, Rovers’ inter¬ 
national winger. 

He took up refereeing as a way 
of keeping fit, and that brought 
him his only other official position 
in football — secretary of Black- 
bom Referees Society. It dearly 




caught his firncy, and he refereed 
in the Football Combination, 
composed of league dubs’ second 
teams, and reached the football 
league list as a linesman from 1974 
to 1977. 

After QEGS he went on to the 
University of Lobdon to read law, 
g raduating in 1962. He returned to 
the north-west, to Preston, where 
he was articled to die town derk, 
and stayed for three years, before 
moving to Hampshire County 
Council as local government 
began to change course. It was the 
era of T. Dan Smith and big 
developments by local govern¬ 
ment Hampshire was not the 
north-east, but it was also infected 


by the more aggressive approach 
of the new wave of local govern¬ 
ment officers, and Sandford 
played his part in the development 
of new towns, as well as advocat¬ 
ing the building of 
the M27. 

In 1970 he moved to Not¬ 
tinghamshire. He was dearly 
marked out as a high flyer, and in 
1978 he became the youngest ever 
county council chief executive 
when be was appointed by Not¬ 
tinghamshire - a promotion that 
ended his refereeing career. 

But he retained his interest in 
football. Both foe Nottingham 
clubs, County and Forest — where 
he was a regular spectator-found 


him helpful over a range of 
matters, and be was a frequent 
guest on Nottingham Forest’s trips 
abroad for European matches. 
When he argues passionately for 
foe return of English dubs to 
Europe, which be regards as one of 
his most important tasks, he 
speaks from personal knowledge. 

He showed, in local govern¬ 
ment, the fine political touch 
necessary in a council in which 
power was evenly balanced. He 
worked successfully with both 
Labour and Conservative council 
leaders, and his political skills 
rnwhied the council to surmount 
intense local divisions caused by 
foe miners’strike. 



1941: Bom East Lancashire 

1963* Attended Queen EBzabetff s Grammar School, Blackburn 
1989-6% Studied taw at tho University of London 
1983: Aitided to Preston Town dark 
1963: Married Kathleen (two daughters) 

1989: Joined Hampshire County Council as legal officer 
1970: Joined NotUngbamaWre County Counts 
1978: Appointed Cntof Executive NotfenhamahfreOounty Counofl 
1868: October 81. appointed chief executive of the Footbafl League 


Those skills were in the local 
go ver nm ent tradition, but unlike 
the okl town deck, the new chief 
executive aw his rote as not just 
carrying out his ooundlfonf 
wishes, bat setting their agenda 
and being an active manager 
rather than a reactive one. 

He is respected in Whitehall and 
has a reputation as a lobbyist, 
drills which will be undoubted 
assets if football is going to 
persuade the Government to un¬ 
bend and give financial support, 
or help the dubs return to 
European competition. 

His various s taffs have liked 
and respected him, and that 
should not change. He inherits a 
smooth-running professional 
organization divided between the 
league headquarters at Lytham, 
Lancashire, and foe commercial 
office in London which, after yean 
of neglect, is beginning to pul foe 
game on a much sounder financial 
basis. 

He is at ease in business, ami 
has some experience as a fund¬ 
raiser and financier. He played an - 
important part in developing the 
National Water Sport Centre at 
Holme Pferrepoint, Nottingham¬ 
shire, and oversaw the sale oflocal 
authority land. “Our land sales 
ran to £17 millio n, so I'm used to 
dealing with big numbers," he 
once remarked. 

The rec omm endations of the 
Taylor report mean he is now 
going to have to get used to even 
bigger ones. Running a local 
government machine is not the 
awift as running a high profile 
industry like football. 

“Alan Hardaker from 

local government too, you know,” 
he is fond of saying, revealing a 
dry sense of humour which will be 
much tested in the months to 
come. Hardaker, the league sec¬ 
retary between 1957 and 1979, ran 
the league virtually as a dictator, 
and foe mention of his name 


might cause one or two potential 
miscreants to shudder. 

There have been suggestions 
that Sandford was the choice of 
the big dubs because they believed 
an outsider would find the league’s 
unwieldy structure unacceptable 
and recommend chang es in fodr 
favour. His background, and his 
friends’ testimony, suggest tha< 
they may have misjudged thwr 
man. Hfe record suggests that 
behind foe mild exterior he has the 
necessary seed and management 

tbilk 

B nt there is one serious 
question mark. He is 
stepping into a very pub¬ 
lic arena for the first time 

and, as well as an eff¬ 
icient. and good leader, football 
needs one who will be seen as 
being dynamic and persuasive - 
in other words, a good front man. 

It is not a role easily associated 
with Sandford. “He has margin¬ 
ally less nharknrifl than G raham 
Kelly,” grunted one cynical 
journalist after Sandford’s first 
press conference after his appoint¬ 
ment. Kelly, effectively 
Sandfonfs predecessor and now 
his counterpart at foe Football 
Association, was noted as an able 
administrator at Lyfoam, but 
notoriously tartnng a dynamic 
personality. 

Kelly, however, has begun to 
blossom in his new role, and 
possibly Sandford will also. He 
has one thing going for him: with 
foe English game facing its greatest 
crisis, the external threat is likely 
to persuade even the most bullish 
Super Leaguers that, for the 
moment, everyone has to pull 
together. That in itself is an 
advantage none of foe league’s 
previous leaders have enjoyed. 
Even then, a talent for knocking 
heads together might still be 
required. 

Peter Ball 


T he most damning 
thing one can say 
about a crossword 
due is that it could 
only be a crossword due, 
because it reads so oddly. The 
art of tiie compiler is to make 
dues read logically, smoothly 
and innocently. Perhaps we 
succeed in The Times, for one 
of our solvers has been so 
strode by what she is pleased 
to call their lyrical lan g uage 
that she now turns them into 
verse. An example culled from 
the puzzle of April 1,1989: 

7 lie war god has not backed 
Othello in battle 
Tamed, perhaps and 
defeated 

Die, we hear, as a result qf 
searched earth — 

Funeral carriage about to 
arrive at the gate 
(Specious order to sup with 
Betial). 

If any publisher is in¬ 
terested, the name of the 


poetess is Sena A. Dingle 
(anag). From time to time, she 
sends me new examples hot 
from the grid, begging me not 
to bother acknowledging 
“because you must be busy 
turning carthorses into 
orchestras”. 

This is only one example of 
the enchanting letters 1 receive 
from our addicts. One of the 
cottage industries in this field 
is, of course, the correction of 
alleged error. For example, 
although the Shorter Oxford 
defines a canter as an easy 
gallop, more than one reader 
has pointed out, apropos a 
dubious recent due, that the 
four paces of foe horse are the 
walk, the trot, foe canter and 
the gallop. “However,” con¬ 
cludes one, “all horsemen are 
aware of foe need to make due 
allowance for their pedestrian 
brethren.” 

The most frequent letters, 
however, are requests for dues 


to be explained. It is frustrat¬ 
ing not to be able to see a due 
even when you have _ the 
answer, and 1 have sometimes 
^thought of adding occasional 
notes under the solution the 
following day. But how would 
one decide which dues to 
annotate (compilers are notor¬ 
iously poor ludgos of the 
difficulties of their own dues), 
and where would we find foe 
space in our basement on the 
bade page, given the need to 
keep the puzzle below the 
fold? 

We did, it is true, publish a 
footnote last year when I felt 
the due “Telegraphed reply 
reported from Austerlitz, for 
example (3-6)” (tap-dancer) 
would be impenetrable to 
those who had solved the 
homophone “tapped answer” 
but did not know that Auster¬ 
litz was Fred Astaire's real 

n?mr_ 

But how coukl one briefly 


The perils of 
the compiler 

Crossword addicts keep The Times 
team logical, smooth and innocent 


explain foe due “Billy Gra¬ 
ham fired thus (8)” (cre¬ 
mated)? This refers not to the 
evangelist, but to Harry Gra¬ 
ham’s Ruthless Rhyme: 

"Billy, in one qf his nice new 
sashes. 

Fell in thefire and was burnt 
toadies; 

Now, although the room 
grows add and chilly, 

/ haven't the heart to poke 
poor Billy." 


Some readers fed we should 
drop our rule of anonymity 
and identify our compilers at 
least by pseudonyms. We have 
10 regular compilers plus my¬ 
self I fear that unsuccessful 
solvers might come to regard 
certain setters as personal 
bites noires and avoid their 
puzzles. 

As it is, the puzzles are by a 
different band each day of foe 
week and vary in difficulty. 


though not, one hopes, in 
consistency or fairness. The 
Saturday prize puzzle, inci¬ 
dentally, is not necessarily the 
hardest of the week, but is 
chosen as a good example of 
its kind. 

The compiling of the puz¬ 
zles seems to interest many 
readers. The first question is 
how does one start — with 
dues or the grid? The answer 
is foe grid, because if you start 
with foe clues you soon find 
that you cannot fit more than 
about half-a-dozen chosen 
words into the grid which, 
being symmetrical, is thirty 
intractible. (We do not make 
up the grids as we go along, 
but use any of our 25 stock 
grids.) 

Filling in the grid usually 
takes a couple of hours (longer 
if the words behave perversely 
in the bottom right-hand cor¬ 
ner). Devising foe clues, which 
is the enjoyable port, can be 


More pieces to 
the puzzle 


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Here is the fourth set of 
clues to our prize 
crossword, the answers 
to which fit within, but 
do not fill, the unshaded 
section of the grid 


ACROSS 


126 Adam’s wine-flask? (5-6) 

135 Within impressionism, 
one talented contributor 
(5) 

136 Trade almost complete— 
but sleepers aren't (7) 

145 Inn's surroundings, where 
learners get together (5) 

146 Plant I removed from 
earth (5) 

155 Jet-set? (4-5) 

163 Make steady progress in 
workshop (5) 

164 King, a fellow showing 
element of nobility (5) 

171 One who lays down his life 
for another (11) 

174 Whercatoo-entiffisastic 
wet has gone? (9) 


180 View I 
pho 

181 Putting on show or 
concealing? (9) 

183 BiThngnally, the end of a 
feiiy(5) 

197 Arranged a loan sum — 
nothing unusual (9) 

199 A foundation on the rocks 

( 7 ) 

202 Ought to change—that’s 
not an easy task (7) 

205 Neat knitwear in craft 
collection (9) 

206 On a trip, drinks in exalted 
mood (4,7) 

208 From the Ml men, we 
hear many stories 
(3,83,3,6) 



. 

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109 Problem with pipe time - 
finally use a p pro priate key 
(7) 

115 Tent, for example, 

endlessly there for king (5) 

119 Th reatenin g acquaintan ces 
booked in France (3,8,11) 

127 Tribesman repeatedly 
volunteers to run (5) 

136 Old men from Ireland it’s 
finite to chase (4,5) 

137 Patriotic work from staff 
in land I adore (9) 


145 Group with mission 
^rovidiiig work for church 

146 Possible to get quarters 
that can be unproved (9) 

IS Science established by 
sound investigations (9) 

162 Pom’s angry? 

W ords wo rth’s speechlessly 
distraught (5) 

171 Book wifo coloured cover 

(ID 


172 Unqualified to speak, 
mainly (5) 

173 Ddiberaldy lose a chance 

( 5 ) 

181 US writer sets end of play 
in Californian city (9) 

182 Fme judgement makes 
sound sense (4,5) 

184 Immediately on the side of 
river, initially (9) 

187 Overwhelmed by anxiety, 
doctor’s admitted (7) 


188 Old man’s work the lion 
destroyed (7) 

189 Remove smooth 
characters before I appear 
in French city (7) 

190 One hound! set free he 
escaped with ease (7) 

198 Confusion upset university 
supporters (5) 

200 Scratched and bloody 
when admitted (5) 

201 Pursue game silently under 

cover f 




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bean broken Hitt Rw sections, wtwh am 
appearing throughout thto week. 


toQeO'w «tm tho ramoir*»g mutl-seaton dues 

Banes snouKj oe aed m on tnegm *mcn is 
wpnmea on sneoty. . 

• There are 12 prtns on offer lor the 
succewBui soiverx tne winner wH receive CT.000 
encamp to indja (or two. courtesy of Hogg 
Rodnion and Com & Kings. Th« second prize b a 
nun Otrad Setot the 32-votum* Encyciapt*cBa 
j a Ufr Kc a In th e Emtwc ecUtton Ipjarfnm DtncBoQ, 

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done at any time, anywhere. I 
reckon the whole puzzle, grid 
and dues, is a day-and-a-halfs 
work, barring accidents. 

One of the most common 
accidents is duplication. 
Sometimes foe same word 
crops up in different puzzles 
intended for the same week. 
One must then either leave 
one of the puzzles to lie fellow 
for a couple of months or 
attempt structural repairs if 
the grid will allow h. But if foe 
offending word or phrase is 
both long and memorable - 
golden handshake, to take a 
painful example — there is 
really nothing to be done 
except warn compilers to lay 
off it for foe next couple of 
yean. 

- Aud it may not be easy to 
find a different due for the 
d up lica t ed word when it is 
eventually used. We had a bad 
run once with conundrum. 


which had to be successively 
clued as: 

Firm with a woman in order 
to beat a problem; 

1 Tricky question, admitting 
sister to company party once; 

Problem sister, running up 
and down in the country tea 
party; and 

Fish swallows blue tit — 
difficult puzzle. 

And, finally, there is foe 
difficulty of foe virtually 
undueable word. Sometimes 
one can find it io a quotation, 
but that is a Iasi resort, for any 
worth white quotation should 
spring to the setter’s mind 
naturally, and not from a 
traipse through the Oxford 
Dictionary qf Quotations. But, 
having said this, I have to 
admit I know there are no 
quotations that indude either 
epaulette or stupefy, because I 
have been driven to look at 
the index. 

John Grant 


COULD YOU 
SOLVE THIS 
PUZZLE 
AS FAST AS 
EINSTEIN? 


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6 

6 

6 

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28 

30 

20 

16 


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The different types of fruit Have different values. 
Added together they give the totals shown. Work ' 
out the missing total for the left hand column.; 


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^IARY 

alan Hamilton 

N ews dm His Excellency Seder Don 
Josfe J. Puig de la Belbicag is going 
home after nearly seven years as 
Danish ambassador at the Court of St 
James's has caused widespread regret. He 
returns to Madrid next month to become 
private secretary to King Juan Carlos, with 
the expectation that he will eventually 
become head of the Spanish royal house-' 
hold. The ambassador is already well, 
acquainted with Spain's jovial motorcycling 
monarch, having been his secret a ry before 
Carlos took the throne. jBcflacasa’a achieve¬ 
ments in cementing Anglo-Spanish relations 
have been little short of remarkable, in spite 
of the constant irritation of massed lager 
louts on the Costas: the first state visit by a 
British monarch to Madrid, a visit here by 
Juan Carlos during which he addressed 
Parliament, an official visit by the Wateses, 
and a guest appearance in Spain by Sefiora 
Thatcher herself- But probably the bravest 
act of hit tenure was to light the first beacon 
dining the 1988 anniversary of the Armada, 
a small matter many Spaniards would really 
prefer to fo rge*. Touchingly, Bella c asa is 
revising to go home until the Queen returns 
from New Zealand, so that he can bid her 
adids personally. 

• Using the local valuation rolls, Chris 
Fatten, our pen-green E n v ironm ent Sec¬ 
retary, has sent out L7 motion letters 
the new business rates Car 
property. Many have been returned, indad- 
ing one addressed to “The Occupier, The 
Mortuary, Manchester Road, Bnrrttey.** No 
longer at this address, I imagine. 


G oing to see Doina Cornea 
again at her homeinQuj 
is an uncanny experi¬ 
ence. Uniformed guards stand at 
the garden gate of Romania's 
most famous dissident. They 
check the papas of her visitors 
and turn most offoanaway.it is 
as it was, except that today they 
are there to protect her from 
“terrorists** - that is to say, her 
former colleagues. Their uni¬ 
forms arc army green, as they 
were before December 22. 
People ask: where have all the 
Securimte gone? 

A yotmg man in Brasov works 
in foe same bu3dm$ as foe man 

who interrogated bun monthly 
until December. A tape-record¬ 
ing pn'owl of him telling a 

British tourist an anecdote from 
the time ofhis military service: a 
dear case of espionage for the 
imperialists. Hu interrogator; 
then a securist, is now a member 
of army counterintelligence. 
Andrei Plesu, the new gnuister 
of culture, is guarded by the man 
who kept him under surveillance 
for the old regime. 

The turncoat is as essential to 
a successful revolution as foe 
martyr. What critics of the ruling 
National Salvation Rent fear is 
that the turncoats have taken 
charge at the expense of the 
demonstrators who braved their 
bullets in December. The street 
disturbances of the last few days 


Mark Almond on a Romanian conspiracy to bury the past 

Triumph of the turncoats 


are reminiscent oftheoklontert 
birth pangs 40 years ago. Sfiviu 
Bnican, the Front’s chief spokes¬ 
man and probably its brains, was 
then foe author of editorials and 
articles justifying the tactics of 
the National Democratic Front's 
supporters and denying govern¬ 
ment complicity in breaking up 
its opponents* meetin gs. 

On Sunday,-student demon¬ 
strators carried tattered pieces of 
newspa p er hidden under floors 
fix’, 40 years: they were Brucan’s 
articles in Scinieux demanding 
the death penalty for the then 
opposition leaders. Others bad 
disfigured photographs of rela¬ 
tions who had been executed in 
those grim days: the Seatritate 
had cut out the feces. 

Brucan, now in his seventies, 
'risked his life last year by 
criticizing Ceausescu. But his 
criticism was essentially that foe 
dictator’s madness was destroy¬ 
ing faith in communism. Now 
that he has come out on top, 
where does Brucan stand? The 
man may leave foe party, tail 
does the party leave the man? 


Dk most striking aspect of the 
trial ofNicotae Ceausescu’s four 
closest political associates (out¬ 
side his family) which opened in 
Bucharest on Saturday is the 
determination of the pretiding 
judge to allow no discussion of 
events in Romania before De>- 
cember 16,1989. ‘‘The past is a 
foreign country; we all incrimi¬ 
nated ourselves there,” seems to 
be the justification for the nar¬ 
row frame of the triaL Fear of the 
revelation of complicity in 40 
yean of repressi on haunts tike 
men who toppled Geansescu’s 
74 yrar long rule. 

Without the extraordinary 
courage of the students and 
others in so many cities; the 
generals of both the army and 
foe Seatritate would never have 
found foe win to turn against 
Ce au sescu. But without tire sec¬ 
urity forces* desertion of their 
master; the slaughter of foe 
crowds would have continued. 
The men who made the coup 
within tire December revolution 
are now afraid that their past 
services to the regime win. be 


exhumed and found to outweigh 
their service to the revolution. 

The apparent determination 
of the old apparatchiks at the 
bead of foe Front to hold on to 
power has united foe principal 
opposition parties. Doina Cor¬ 
nea left the Front, in which she 
was enrolled against her know¬ 
ledge, and has refused to join any 
party. She is disappointed that 
Ion Hiescu and his colleagues, 
with their administrative experi¬ 
ence, were not willing to act as a 
transitional government leading 
to a democratically chosen post¬ 
communist system and preserve 
essential services from chaos. 

Unlike many of those who 
chant “Doina Cornea is with 
us”, she does not want revenge 
for tire past, just guarantees for 
the future. It was tire Front’s 
decision to stand fix' election 
against the disparate opposition 
parties despite its control of the 
media that led te her resignation. 

Only the Front is allowed to 
operate in foe factories, which 
remain under the direction of the 
old ministries, in turn con- 


Bernard Levin, rejoicing in step-by-step manuscripts, is 
thankful that the master composers had no computers 

Switching to a ^ 


W est Germans are getting happier 
and happier, it must be something 
to do with foe prospect of 
reunification. The Wickert Institute has just 
asked 4,067 of them “Have you laughed 
already today?” and found that 89 per cent 
of them had. Three years ago only 79 per 
cent were laughing, and at foe end of foe 
Seventies just 77 per cent The over-5Gs — 
the ones who will have to pay most of the 
tax to make reunification work — laugh 
least, but even 84 per cent of them are 
happy. Only a nation as deadly serious as 
the Germans could hold such a poQ. 


T here was an auction of 
musical autographs at 
Sotheby’s not long ago 
at which the original 
manuscript of rim Sc humann 
Piano Concerto fetched 
£880,000 (by far the highest stnn 
paid at the sale), not only 
because it was obviously an 
exceptional treasure, but because 
the experts have found substan¬ 
tial traces nf f}ar9* < hand in fo e 
autograph score; so substantial, 
indeed, that it seems we may 
have to call it the Schumanns 
Piano Concerto in future. 

The same sale included a 
number of Beethoven items, 
crowned by a sketch for the first 
movement of the Ninth Sym¬ 
phony. The very thought of such 
an item malms me tremble; to 
look over Beethoven's shoulder 
as he wrestled with that unique 
and astounding opening would 
be as dose to God as we sinners 
are likely to get: 

In what distant deeps or skies' 
Burnt the fire of thine eyes? 

On what wings dare he aspire 
■ What the hand dare seise the 
fire? 

There was also a Schubert ms, 
of a Magnificat, described as 
“tost”, leaving it unclear whether 
it was only foe ms that had been 
lost and was now found, or 
whether the work itself had 
hitherto never been known 
about If foe latter, I trust foe 
new owner will lave it pub¬ 
lished; to think of even a 
fragment of Schubert left un¬ 
played, let alone a complete 
addition to his catalogue, would 
be unbearable. 

Mind you, I have held in my 
hands the original score of foe 
Coriolan overture; perhaps not 
among Beethoven's best-loved 
masterpieces, as, for instance, 
Egmont is, but surely one ofhis 
most characteristic creations, in 
its numerous unexpectednesses, 
the most unexpected being that 
strange finish with the four 
ghostly chords, tike some set of 
great folios shutting. (The mu¬ 
seum which let me touch foe 
Beethoven ms drew the line at 
their Gutenberg Bible. Still, 
many years ago I turned foe 
pages of foe Krimscott Chaucer; 
it was going for £900, and I 
didn't buy it, fool that I must 
have been.) 

There is, I think, something 
•much deeper than curiosity in 
foe wish to see the hand actually 
at work; what wouldn't we give 
for a volume, a page, a line, of 
Shakespeare's! For one thing, we 
could see how foe first attempts 
turn gradually into the finiahlwd 
passages oh, I know Ben Jonson 
said “He never blotted a tine”, 
but that was surely an exaggera¬ 
tion, understandable in a tribute 
to a dead friend and colleague. 
But to see the ink he dipped his 
pen in, rusting now on the page, 
would be a magical experience. 
Berlioz said of foe second 


different key 


N ews that foe fishermen of Peterhead 
are bartering ten Scottish mackerel 
for one Russian haddock makes me 
wonder how they work out the relative 
values. How many Loch Fyne kippers equal 
one sturgeon? How many Arbroath smokies 
to a halibut? Is this the official haddock rate 
of exchange, or black market? And if the 
Scots ever achieve independence, will they 
demand parity between the Finnan haddie 
and the Dover sole? Brill the humble coley 
be allowed to join the European Monetary 
System? The Russians seem happy enough 
to dispose of their Baltic whitefish; all I can 
assume is that, having digested foe opening 
of foe Moscow McDonald's this week, they 
are not yet ready for the fish and chip shop. 

BARRY FANTONI 



*Ou® qaarfsr-pouad cabbage 
burger to go, Comrade* 

D espite Dame Daphne du Maurier 
pooh-poohing the idea of a biog¬ 
raphy before she died last April, her 
daughters nave commissioned one. Mar¬ 
garet Forster, novelist and biographer of 
Thackeray and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 
has been assigned foe formidable task It 
will be published by Chatto and Windus, 
and Foreter, in her four-year undertaking, 
hopes to give foe “elusive” du Maurier her 
rightful place in the pantheon of 20th- 
century novelists. 

I had never thought of Concorde in foe 
same terms as a packet of custard 
creams, but a knowledge of things that 
fly is apparently no longer a prerequisite for 
landing «top job with British Airways. Jane 
Wilson has left United Biscuits to become 
brand manager for BA's fleet of tbe world's 
most beautiful aeroplane. There she will 
find that one of her senior general managers , 
is Ian MeComas (late of Heinz beans), 
another is Mike Batt (late ofMars bars) and i 
her director of marketing is Liam Strong 
(late of Column's mustard). Clearly it is not 
a matter of what yon sell, but how yon sell iL 
And there's much to be said for volume; one 
Concorde single to New York roughly 
equals 8,500 Mars bars. 










movement of Beethoven's 
Eighth Symphony that “It was 
conceived in an instant and 
written down in a single sitting.” 
And that is what we all fed when 
we hear it, so magically complete 
and perfect is it But Berlioz was 
wrong: Beethoven’s sketch¬ 
books show that he worked long 
and hard, changing his mind 
over and over again, until at last 
he was satisfied, if indeed 
Beethoven could ever be sat¬ 
isfied. Ars est celare artem. 

For that matter, Beethoven's 
most notable change of mind is 
Fidelio in its entirety. If yon 
compare the original work, 
which foiled in the theatre, with 
his second thoughts, you will 
find that every time he made an 
alteration h was for foe better, 
and the result is not only one of 
tbe greatest operas ever written, 
but one of foe most profound 
statements about love, truth, 
courage, justice and deliverance 
ever made in any form. 

I t is now said, with much 
plausibility, that the age of 
manuscript is coining to an 
end; I ran into a tiny 
example of the plausibility not 
long agp, when someone wrote 
to ask for the original manu¬ 
script or typescript of a particu¬ 
lar column (in which my 
correspondent had been men¬ 
tioned). I was obliged to reply 
that there was no such physical 
reality; tbe article had been 
“typed” on the green glass of my 
Atex VDU, and once I had 
pressed foe appropriate button (1 
am very good at pressing foe 
app r op riate button), it went on 
its way into foe Times * system, 
untouched by human band. 

This in turn led to another, 
more mysterious, question. I 
mentioned the episode to friends 
not versed in computer typeset¬ 
ting and similariy arcane mat¬ 
ters; I explained that my words 


are stored automatically until I 
want to wotk on them again, 
where u p on the right button wDl 
tiring the entire text to the 
screen. “But where”, asked one 
of the company, “are your words 
before you bring them back to 
the screen?” I realized that not 
only was I unable to answer the 
question; there was a sense in 
which I couldn't even under¬ 
stand it. 

. I can make noises, of course. 
“The words are stored as eleo- 
trical impulses.” But for all that 
actually means to me, I might as 
well say that they are written 
down by an angel with a golden 
pen. It is all very well to be 
assured that tbe medium is not 
the message; and the contents 
are still supreme, bat I don't, 
trust this world; I fear that one' 
day I shall wake up and find that 
the last bottle of ink has been 
emptied. 

Let us go bade ibr a moment to 
where we started. There are 
computers which can copy 
music as easily as words; sup¬ 
pose Beethoven bad had one of 
them. Yon can say that he would 
have written the same music. 
But we should sever have bad 
foe evidence to confute Berlioz 
over the Eighth Symphony, and 
we would never be certain which 
version of Fidelio was the better, 
because Beethoven would have 
wiped foe eaztier version. 

What is more; we would have 
lost something very valuable 
from our idea of Mozart. For he 
did conceive of masterpieces in 
an instant; with some of bis 
grea te st works foe fair copy 
exactly matches the sketch, in¬ 
deed Is the sketch. We have to 
believe h, from the incontrovert¬ 
ible evidence of the manuscripts, 
which was tbe last straw for 
Shaffer’s Salieri C^ought at an 
inn somewhere in this city 
stands a giggling child who can 
put on paper, without actually 


setting down his billiard cue, 
casual notes which turn my most 
considered ones into lifeless 
scratches”.) But if those casual 
notes had had no existence other 
than as part of a machine’s 
electronic innards, foe argument 
could never have ended, or even 
started. 


A n is not yet lost, 
though, as I can testify. 
I possess foe original 
manuscript score of a 
work dedicated to me, in feet 
written for me, by a young 
composer of great gifts, hight 
Richard Blackford. (He also, 
without actually setting down his 
billiard cue, wrote the music for 
my last two television travel 
series.) 

It is a fentasia for wind quintet 
(flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and 
bassoon) on themes from The 
Afastersingers, and is called Por- 
, trait of Hans Sachs. It was 
presented to me first in a 
surprise performance; foe cir¬ 
cumstances were festive, and 
reminiscent of Wagner’s birth¬ 
day present to Cosima, the 
surprise of foe Siegfried Idyll. I 
would not part with my manu¬ 
script for ninety-nine times the 
sum that bought the Schumann 
Concerto ms, and it is no use , 
your writing until I die and going j 
to tbe auction of my effects, for I | 
shall have bequeathed it to one j 
who loves music and Richard as 
much as I do. 

• For a month only, Alec 
McCowen is reviving his memor¬ 
ized reading of St Mark’s Gospel, 
at the Half Moon. Theatre. Those 
who missed it at the Mermaid or 
Queen Elizabeth Hall should not 
miss now one of the most re¬ 
markable and profound theatri¬ 
cal occasions cf their lives. I have 
no interest to declare, other than 
the satisfaction it will give me to 
know that I may have persuaded 
even a single waverer to go. 


trolled by tbe Front Even with¬ 
out the burden of his past, it 
would be difficult to believe 
Brucan’s denial of foreknow¬ 
ledge of tbe demonstrations 
a gains t the opposition parties on 
Monday. The opposition maybe 
right to say the workers (and 
soldiers in civilian dress) who 
have pttaHreri its leaders and 
offing are manipulated by die 
Front. 

However, the level of gramme 
support for the From should not 
be under-estimated. To the av¬ 
erage prattaniim, the Front has 
brought beating and li g ht i n g, 
and perhaps most importantly, a 
real sense of freedom. Pa ssen g er s 

remade on their delight at talking 
to foreigners on a train without 

worrying about the other people 
in the compartment The real 
benefits of foe fell of Ceausescu 
are magnified by the Front’s 
crude but effective propag anda . 

A visit to the now ran s ack ed 
offices of the National liberal 
Party revealed how proud they 
were of a few antiquated type¬ 
writers, bat the television gave 


the impression of fet-cats with 
dollars trying to steal tbe revolu¬ 
tion from foe people. Brief 
tele virion slots are given to the 
multiplicity of parties (some 
rumoured to be front creations) 
but they are often followed by 
bedside interviews with 
wounded heroes of the revo¬ 
lution expressing their support 
for Ion Hiescu and his colleagues. 

So far the clashes between 
supporters of tbe opposition and 
of foe Front have led only to 
bruises and Moody noses. Some 
of the intellectuals who are 
critical of the Front fear that if 
the tide of public opinion began 
to flow in fevour of foe current 
.underdogs, worse might follow. 
The students tiwnir that they 
overthrew Ceausescu and there¬ 
fore they are not afraid ofXfiesco, 
but behind Hiescu stand the 
gene ral s of foe army and the 
Seatritate who helped to form 
foe Front- At least one professor, 
a shrewd critic of Hiescu, fears 
that foe military would step in 
rather than allow the opposition 
to take power and set up an 
inquiry into the past 

Although the old apparatus of 
repression is dormant, its agents 
are to be seen not in demob suits 
but in army uniforms. Growing 
rhare might suit foe turncoats 
better than foe dissidents. 

The author is lecturer in modern 
history at Oriel College, Oxford. 


Ronald Butt 


A knee-jerk 
sermon 


T he overriding political 
danger ahead of the Gov¬ 
ernment is that it will 
either not defeat inflation de¬ 
cisively in the next year or that, 
it it does, the cost of victory will 
turn growth into recession and* 
foe rail in unemployment imn a 
renewed rise. That is not an 
prawnpiir rfimate in which it is 
easy to assuage public discontent 
with the condition of many 
public services and foe level erf 
investment in them. 

In a tactical sense, therefore; 
the progress report from the 
Archbishop of Canterbury's Ad¬ 
visory Group on Urban Priority 
Areas, Living Faith in the City 
(the sequel to Faith in the City) 
might be said to be well-timed. 
Moreover, although it has fol¬ 
lowed its predecessor into foe 
fray against tbe trend of govern¬ 
ment policy, it has done so with 
greater cucumspcctioa. The 
Government's commitment to 
the renewal of foe inner cities is 

acknowledged, though with criti¬ 
cism of the resources allocated 
and the methods of deployment. 

Yet the report reveals deplor¬ 
ably slipshod and jH ogir^ l think¬ 
ing and its words ought not, 
because they are softer in parts, 
to escape critical analysis. As 
good a place as any to begin is 
the following sentence “In brief, 
the Government’s claim is that 
by more selective targeting and 
mare central control a smaller 
total of public expenditure can 
be used more effectively to en¬ 
courage a higher level of private 
sector investment, leading to 
more rapid and sustainable local 
economic regeneration.” 

But that implies that the 
Government sees selective tar¬ 
geting and central control as a 
way of spending less. In feet, foe 
Government's claim is only that 
they are tbe best way to get value 
for a given amount of money, 
the supply of which cannot be 
infinite. Nor would anyone sup¬ 
pose from the sentence quoted 
that the Government is actually 
spending much more in real 
terms; the implication seems to 
be that it is spending less. 

Tbe report goes on to criticize 
as inadequate foe policy of 
encouraging a higher level of 
private-sector investment to 
benefit foe priority areas. Then, 
having it both ways, it adds that 
it does not “seek to prejudge the 
political choices between free 
market and interventionist sol¬ 
utions to these problems and foe 
range of practical courses in 
between these extremes”. But to 
contrast the “free market” and 
“interventionism” as opposites 
in tins context is absurd; foe 
money given to stimulate the 
private sector is itself interven¬ 
tionism. 

The troth is that foe term “free 
market” has become both a 
buzz-word and a bogey in foe 
church circles which consider 
these matters. They know that it < 
is something that they must : 
come to terms with. But they 
stay convinced that what they i 
call “interventionism” (which ; 
must be direct) is the way of 
virtue. Recalling that Faith in < 
the City tended to recommend l 
interventionist policies as the « 


best practical way, the report 
remarks that it could not say this 
was wrong “in foe deplorable 
situation that exists in Urban 
Priority Areas today”. 

So too, on poverty and 
employment the report recalls 
foe belief of Faith in the City that 
“too much emphasis was being 
placed on individualism and not 
enough on collective obliga¬ 
tion”. It records foe fell in unem¬ 
ployment without acknowledg¬ 
ing that this has been due to the 
free-market policies ft derides. It 
adds that the number still un¬ 
employed is much higher than 
would have been tolerated until 
a few years ago but does not 
mention tbe concealed un¬ 
employment which formerly led 
to inflation paid for by everyone. 


i trend of govern- ~Y ndeed, nowhere does infia- 
has done so with I tiou come into tbe argument 
inspection- The -A at all, which is what makes 
commitment to foe report so purblind. Instead, 
foe inner cities is the report attacks attempts to 
though with cxiti- draw a distinction between ab- 
sourees allocated solute and relative poverty, de¬ 
ls of deployment. dares that society is becoming 
rt reveals deplor- “more unequal”, seems to reject 
id illogical think- targeting social benefits and . 
oids ought not, declares font current economic 
ne softer in parts, and social policies are intended 
cal analysis. As to “recast” society, 
s any to begin is It states: “Policies based on 
ntence: “In brie£ common obligations, corporate 
it’s claim is that responsibility and social justice 
eve targeting and arc rejected as leading inevitably 
ontrol a smaller to a loss of personal freedom, tbe 
expenditure can growth of bureaucratic vested 
Effectively to en- interests and economic stagna- 
r level of private tion.” From the first part of that 
lent, leading to sentence, you would hardly 
sustainable local think font the public spending 
oration.” announced in tins week’s White 

a plies that the Paper for tbe next year will be 39 
£s selective tar- per cent of the gross national 
tral control as a product; that by far the largest 
{less. In feet, foe spending item is £56 billion on 
: laim is only that social security; or that health wifl 
: way to get value take £22 billion, and that both 
ount of money, represent increases in real terms, 
vhich cannot be The report proclaims that 
mid anyone sup- “economic and soda! polity has 
sentence quoted therefore come to elevate in- 
iment is actually dividual freedom as lire para- 
i more in real mount goal and foe dimension 
[cation seems to of the community has been 
iding less. neglected” and states that for a 

es on to criticize considerable number of the poor 
the policy of “tbe picture looks bleaker than it 
higher level of did in 1985”. 
investment to Yes it does, but only because 
ity areas. Then, inflation has returned to plague 
ays, it adds that us. But tbe report has nothing to 
: to prejudge tbe say about this, or how money is 
s between free to be found for tbe potentially 
Tventionist sol- never-ending rise in poten tial 
robtems and foe claimants on the public purse, 
ical courses in One sentence alone makes 
Ltremes”. But to common sense. The report de- 
re market” and dares that over foe next five 
i” as opposites years those who take poverty 
is absurd; foe seriously must talk about tbe 
> stimulate foe principles of the welfare state 
itself imerven- and foe philosophy behind foe 
move from universal to targeted 
it foe term “free means-testing benefits. Quite so. 
ecome both a And that means talking about 
a bogey in foe ways and means. If foe church 
which co nside r i n s i s t s on setting up committees 
icy know that it on political economics, let it do 
tat they must so property, talking about where 
with. But they foe money it wants to spend is to 
that what they come from and stop treating it as 

>xusm” (which a kind of manna, 
is foe way of Ifit wishes to play in the game 
that Faith in of political economy, it had 
to recommend better set up its own committee 
Tolicies as the of ways and means. 


On Monday evening a friend 
came to dinner, a vintage friend 
area 1952. 1 had a nightclub in 
Chelsea at the time and he, an 
undergraduate, would come and 
help with foe washing-up when 
my regular kitchen porter was 
overcome by St Patrick's Day. 

Later he became a captain of 
cricket and I got my own back, 
playing for his team. I went to his 
wedding; be became godfather to 
my third cfaikL Then when I was 
in Parliament and be an academic 
X used to be invited to come and 
shout at his customers — though 
our politics differed substantially. 
In short a genuine friend. 

He lives in foe country, came to 
London by train, took the Under¬ 
ground, walked- L too, took extra 
trouble: eschewed the street mar¬ 
ket, went to foe expensive green¬ 
grocer and bought his best melon 
(big mistake, that), soaked a piece 
of gammon for 24 hours and 


Guests, welcome and uninvited 


baked it in a covering of brown 
sugar dissolved in overproof rum 
— what the Jamaicans caO “Be 
Rude To Your Mother-in-Law” 
because it gives men foe courage 
to do just that, garnished it with 
chunks of pineapple and slithers 
of fresh ginger caramelized to 
sinning mahogany. 

We had new potatoes with 
parsley and undercooked Brussels 
sprouts liquidized with cream 
and a scrape of nutmeg; a bottle of 
Amarone 1977, one of foe great 

Valpolicellas...and before dinner 
we watched tbe marathon from 
Auckland on television — be 
saying that red-past looked good. 
I advising him not to write off 
green-pant who had a fearsome 


fi n i s hi ng burst Red-pant won. 

I was slicing frozen croissants 
horizontally, fining them with 
matured farmhouse che ese and 
anchovy fillets prior to putting 
them into a low oven for 12 
minutes, when the pastry would 
crisp, foe cheese melt, and we 
were playing cricketers* initials: 
Peebles? “IAR - that’s O level 
stuff” What were Sutcliffe's? 
Trick question. Sutcliffe only had 
oue: H. “Here is an S level: 
Merchant who played for India?” 
“Do you mean VM or UMT 

He feiled on Dempster CS, I on 
Sbacldeton — whose initials were 
never an issue, be was called 
Shack — when my daughter, his 
godchild, arrived and foe con- 



Clement 

Freud 

venation became more general. 
We discussed tbe thrifty Scots¬ 
man who was in a blue movie and 

played it backwards because he so 
enjoyed h when the hooker gave 
him the money. We talked or our 


work; my friend's was taking him 
to London four times this week, 
committees mostly. Emma was 
either going to front a worldwide 
television awards ceremony, or 
do cabaret in an upstairs room of 
a pub in Islington; which did we 
think she should go for? 

X was still on readers* letters, 
about me answering foe rude ones 
with “how land of you to find tbe 
time to write” and foe nice ones 
with enthusiasm — like one from 
a Gloucestershire lady who was 

worried about my gening ripped 
off by London garages and gave 
me foe name of hers, which was 
honest to a fault and so inexpen¬ 
sive that I would show a profit if I 
drove down, stayed tbe night in a 


local hotel and had a good dinner. 

Emma’s taxi came. I asked my 
friend when his train left; he said 
11.10, had some more coffee and 
I drove him to tbe station. 

On that Monday night after 
Emma had got home to London 
NI6, locked her door and gone to 
sleep, burglars cut a hole in her 
downstairs window, gained ad¬ 
mission, and stripped foe ground 
floor of her house of most of her 
prized possessions; meanwhile 
my friend got back to his house in 
foe country at half past midnight, 
set foe alarm for 6am and drove 
back to London to a meeting not a 
mile from where we had dinner 

“You oaf," I said to him on foe 
telephone on Tuesday evening 


when I found out “You could 
have stayed here, you know we 
have a spare room, why did you 
not say?" And he ummed a bit 
and said: “I didn’t want to impose 
on you, old chap." 

Tallulah Bankhead once came 
home from a drunken party with 
a sea] — which she put in the bath 
m her apartment. In tbe mo rning 
her housekeeper haH gone, leav¬ 
ing a note on the kitchen table to 
explain that she had departed 

because of the seaL “I do not like 
seals. I would have mentioned 
this before but did not thinir it 
would come up." 

I was going to explain to my 

mend that life was about success¬ 
ful communication but decided 
that after all those years I should 
have known about him and ofr*; 
“Blessed are the meek for they 
shall...” 

Meek BW, be said; played for 

Worcestershire 19 the 1940s. 












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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 


THIS UNSPORTING LIFE 


scant public sympathy Thev 

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eternally sad because their reputation for 
gp^-natured competition^ SS, 

" PWfocal discord of recent years it looked as if 
to* gathering h, New zSd 2fm« 
• more justify that pleasant tide. 

jl2&5F tc 161 ^wu tiieir compatriots 

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hMnMommg. I nde ed not only Wales but the 
whole ofBntaw will prohabJy suffer, through a 
: 12 -month ban on all of its wdghtliftere ton 
appearing ra international competition. That is 
bam on those who have not themselves 
transgressed. But their sport must shoulder 
some responsibility for its failure to eradicate 
the practice. It is only by taking diaconican 
measures now that the authorities will stamp 
out the growing abuse. 

V Memories are still fiesh of the 1988 Olympic 

Ctanes at which the f-awa'fian sprinter, Ben 
Johnson, was stripped of his gold medal after 
wummg the 100 metres. The athlete was 
disgraced—yet banned for only two years from 
yraPfri tive running. Negotiations have begun 
for his return to the track this year for a 
reported “muftwmDion dollar” sprint against 
Carl Lewis ~ who was eventually given the 
gold medal in Seoul. A two-year ban with a 

small fortune at the end of it hardly sounds like 
an adequate deterrent 

: In this respect one must commend the 
British Amateur Weigh differs’ Association 
which will almost certainly ban Ricky Chaplin 
and-Gareth Hives (the offenders in Auckland) 
for life. Weightlifters, more than any other 
sportsmen, are tempted to take body-building 
drags. An Indian competitor has also been 
disqualified in Auckland, while an En glishman 
failed a drugs test last October while talcing 
part in trials in this country. It is imperative 


that the sport’s own authorities convince 
competitors that the risk is not worthwhile. 

Methods of detection have improved. By 
testing tiie medal winners in all events, plus a 
random selection of others taking part, the 
organizers should be able to catch out those 
who break the rales. But the numbers detected, 
though relatively small, suggest (as The Times 
has frequently maintained) that a much bigger 
problem lurks beneath the surface. 

A partial answer may be the introduction of 
random out-of-competition testing, which will 
catch out those taking steroids during training. 
This would prevent them from being picked 
for their country in the first place. At 
approximately £100 a test, this is a costly 
burden for sports bodies. But the Sports 
Council win try out a regimen this year, which 
should act as a powerful deterrent in the future. 

Even this, however, may not be enough. The 
use of muscle-building hormones has already 
spread beyond organized sports in Britain to a 
growing number of body-building enthusiasts. 
An international blade market has developed, 
with Britain being used as a staging post for 
traffickers. 

Yet anabolic steroids when taken in large 
doses, without a medical prescription, can 
have disturbing side-effects. There is evidence 
that a number of sportsmen and body-builders 
have been taking them in quantities far beyond 
those medically prescribed for patients who are 
genuinely underweight or undernourished. 
There have been reports in the United States of 
people suffering paranoid delusions, increased 
aggression and violent outbursts, leading even 
to murder. 

The Government needs to make possession 
of these drugs a criminal offence, as is the case 
in Norway and Sweden. The US Senate is now 
again considering legislation. Yet the Home 
Office in Britain is still hesitating, despite 
pressure from a number of politicians — 
including the Minister for Sport, Mr Colin 
Moynihan. Perhaps this latest evidence of 
abuse will persuade Whitehall to act quickly. 


A PLACE IN THE SUN 


The general election campaign in Japan has 
already begun. The election, expected to be 
held on February 18, will be more bitterly 
. fought than any in Japan’s post-war history. 
Fbr the first time, the hegemony of the ruling 
liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is in doubt 
Also for the first time, perhaps, the outcome is 
important not only to the Japanese but to the 
rest of the world. 

The vote, after months of unprecedented 
nati onal soul-seardnng, is likely to be dose. 
Japan’s political culture has been transformed 
by the series of domestic and international - 
shocks since Hirohito’s death a year ago. 
Japan’s governing Site has been badly shaken. 

The Recruit influence-buying scandal led to 
the resignation of Mr Noboru Takeshita, the 
former prime minister who remains the LDP’s 
power-broker. Then a public outcry over his 
association with a bar hostess forced his 
successor, Mr Sosuke Uno, from office; 

Last May the United States branded Japan 
an unfair trader under the US Trade Act 
Public discontent over a much-needed tax 
reform, which involved a 3 per cent consumer 
tax and the lowering of Japan’s barriers against 


difficulty of reconciling economic liberaliza¬ 
tion with traditional domestic interests. The 

voters inflicted a crushing defeat on the LDP in 
elections to the Upper House last July. Japan’s 
Socialist Party, led by the charismat ic Mrs 
Takako Doi, suddenly became a real political 
force. 

The LDP’s leadership believes that public 
disgust with the penetration of politics by big 
business has subsided. Heavily supported by 
the Japanese business federation, the 
Kridanren, it is trying to capitalize on anxiety 
about the recent weake n ing of the yen. 

Mrs Doi’s party has foiled to exploit last 
summer’s triumph- It has foiled to shed.its 
Marxist baggage, its commitment to abolish 


Japan’s defence forces and its promise to 
abrogate the Japan-US security treaty. This 
failure has alienated other, more moderate 
opposition, parties with which it might have 
formed a coalition. Even so, the LDPs 
majority in the Lower House is likely to be 
more modest than the present one of295 seats. 

Anger over the consumer tax has refused to 
die down: recent polls show nearly two-thirds 
of the electorate opposed to it, and the same 
proportion consider it the most important 
electoral issue. The Socialists used their power 
in the Upper House last month to pass a Bill 
abolishing it, which was later reversed by the 
LDP in tiie Lower House. They will seek to 
make the tax an issue across the country, and 
wifi also refresh voters’ memories of the 
Recruit scandal 

If the LDP wins, it will be largely due to the 
growing popularity of the Prime Minister, Mr 
Toshflri Kaifo. Previously little known, Mr 
Kaifo had greatness thrust upon him last 
August by a leadership unable to find anybody 
else who was relatively untainted by either 
financial or sexual scandals. Mr Kaifo is 
unlikely to be left in office to enjoy the fruits of 
victory. 

He was selected in part because, coming 
from the smallest of the LDP’s factions, he 
could be cast aside once the crisis subsided. A 
derisive win might reprieve him, but otherwise 
Mr Takeshita may force him to give way to a 
leading member of the party’s old guard, Mr 
Shintaro /foe, who was also implicated in the 
Recruit scandaL 

That would set back the rejuvenation of 
Japanese political Bfe, which urgently needs to 
develop a modem, accountable system if it is 
to equip itself for a place in the world 
commensurate with its strength. Even more 
than fiscal reform, political accountability 
ought to be tiie overriding issue in this 
campaign. 


DOGGED DOES IT 


Is Dr David Owen really necessary? Is there a 
role in the British parliamentary system for a 
politician of the centre with no viable means 
of support? The contribution which the leader 
of the Social Democratic Party madeygerday 
to a seminar at the Royal United Institute for 
Defence Studies suggests that the answer to 
both questions is yes. . 

His subject - Western European political 

and security perspectives—was foosely enough 

defined to allow him to 
landscape. The situation in Eastern Europe^ 
the foture of Nato, German reumfiration and 
the foture of the European Commumiywere 
all summoned into the surgery and subjected 
to brisk examination. . 

The SDP leader is impatient with those 
Western politicians and diplomats who argue 

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SLS riiaUt would encourage movements 

Hfce^harter 77 and prow* manifestations of 
S of the Prime 

Gennan ft l°r ^Mvlntoview, it 

way to thank Mr Gorbacn Soviet 

would be 

Union any droU Je regas 

rc '“ uficatI ?t Jddnfthe FourSoirer Agree- 
stances, of m J?‘ an ®ru vn f overriding what 
went over Berlin as a way rfgMof self- 
be regards as the absolute 
determination, hedesOTbesas • 


him as one of nature s the 

who needs to be rewarded m 


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compliment; perhaps he has forgotten that 
towards the end of his life Lenin wrote “every 
time you are faced with a choice between 
doctrine and reality* choose reality”). 

Dr Owen’s message to Mr Gorbachov is that 
a common European home is alive and well 
and is called the European Community. He 
asserts flatly that the Soviet Union lost its 
economic claim to superpower status a decade 
ago. He overstates the extent to which its 
military status has been eroded, but he is 
sensitive to its security anxieties, and concedes 
that the most pressing of them relates to the 
military profile of a united Germany. 

He believes that this would best be met by a 
declaration by Nato that if Germany were to 
become united, the alliance would no longer 
seek to deploy any forces from countries 
outside Europe on German soiL He urges, 
however, that this should be a Nato initiative, 
and he is adamant that there should be no 
concession to the Russians that there is any 
equivalence in the stationing ofSoviet forces in 
Eastern Europe and US forces in Western 
Europe. 

One of the traditional benefits of opposition 
is that it gives politicians a degree of leisure. 
Relieved of ministerial burdens, they can.take 
a long view, reconsider some of their received 
opinions, challenge those of the Government 
and prepare for the time when the pendulum 
will swing them back into office; In the field of 
foreign affairs (and with the proving exception 
of Mr Denis Healey) it is not something which 
the Labour Party is currently very good at 

Although it is fashionable to deride Dr Owen 
as a leader without a party, he stiE effortlessly 
upstages opposition leaders who have that 
advantage- Some of his ideas are better than 
others. By the standards of the present day, he 
expresses them in a manner that is notably un¬ 
partisan. In his doged way, he is exercising an 
important function. He remains a substantial 
politician. 


Disbanding of a 
BBC‘big band’ 

From Mr David Whitaker 
Sir, A performance by the BBC 
Radio Orchestra to be transmitted 
this week under my baton co¬ 
incides with the sad news that the 
orchestra is to' be disbanded 
(report, January 27). I will be but 
one of the millions who has 
enjoyed the excellence of its 
combined musicianship. 

May I suggest an alternative to 
the governors: rather than resort 
to the inevitable and archaic 
method of pruning away the 
musicians first when times are 
getting hard, they could combine 
the Radio Orchestra with the 
Concert Orchestra and create a 
new BBC Pops Orchestra which 
would eventually emerge as a 
world-class orchestra in this cate¬ 
gory, and second to none — the 
“pick of the pops'*. 

By transmissions, public perfor¬ 
mances, and the sale of records, 
they will then compete with, and 
certainly get the better of, the 
Boston Pops and the millions of 
Reader’s Digest albums which 
already exist. 

There are several millions of 
listeners and buyers throughout 
Europe who will welcome the 
continuance of music in the lighter 
vein. The BBC, which has world¬ 
wide coverage and publicity at the 
throw of a switch, should apply 
these resources to m aintaining its 
unparalleled supremacy in the 
field. 

Yours etc., 

DAVID WHITAKER, 

Nether Barn, Netbercote Road, 
Tackley, Oxfordshire. 

From Mr Peter Seekings-Foster 
Sir, An amalgamation of the 
former Revue and Variety Or¬ 
chestras of the 1940s, the BBC 
Radio Orchestra, having already 
seen the cost-cutting departures of 
three other BBC popular music 
orchestras in Scotland, Man¬ 
chester, and the Midlands, has just 
celebrated its silver jubilee and 
appointed its first principal 
conductor in 10 years. 

Under the popular leader, 
Michael Tomalin, and the baton 
of lain Sutherland and an army of 
interoationally-known guest con¬ 
ductors, the RO has been present¬ 
ing four shows per week on the 
Radio 2 network, and recorded 
inserts into many other pro¬ 
grammes. Subject to contractual 
obligations, it has also been in 
ever-increasing demand for public 
performances around the country: 
mostly “live** or recorded concerts 
for later broadcast transmission. 

There can indeed be few or¬ 
chestras of its type today whose 
versatility is economic in itsd£ 
regularly splitting itself into small¬ 
er units as necessary — not least 
among them the ever-popular 
BBC Big Band. It is as a part of the 
full Radio Orchestra aggregate 
that the Big Band’s distinctive 
character should continue to 
entertain millions. 

Y ours fa ithfully, _ 

P. SfcEMNGS-FOs l ER, 

43 Stanway Road, 

Coventry, West Midlands. 

Dying in hospital 

■From Mrs Sheila Dilks 
Sir, In reply to Marjorie Wallace’s 
letter (January 20), I have worked 
in the NHS for 18 years. During 
that time I have never refused, or 
seen refused, a relative of a dying 
patient the right to stay overnight. 
1 admit we do not often have a 
spare bed, but do offer the most 
comfortable chair! 

Working practices can always be 
improved and I hope in the future 
we can extend this service. In the 
meanwhile I would reassure any 
future NHS patient that they need 
not die alone, at least at my 
hospitaL 
Yours faithfully, 

SHEILA DILKS, 

12 Clarendon Close, Wumersh, 
Wokingham, Be rkshire. _ 

Condition reports 

From Mr J. Quine 
Sir, When will hospitals find a 
more suitable adjective than 
“comfortable” to describe the 
condition of badly injured pa¬ 
tients in their care? 

Recent examples are an 88-year- 
old woman who was raped and lay 
for 24 hours on the floor of her 
home suffering from shock and 
hypothermia; a teenage boy who 
received multiple fractures in both 
legs in a car accident; and last 
night the same word was quoted 
by a radio newscaster concerning 
an 11-year-old girl savagely 
mauled by a bull terrier! Would 
not “recovering” be kinder and 
more accurate? 

Yours faithfully, 

J. QUINE, 

The Little House, Spa Esplanade, 
Heme Bay, Kent. 

January 17. 

Hong Kong rights 

From Mr Norman Tebbit, CH, 

MPfor Chingford (Conservative) 
Sr, Mr Marxian's article in your 
edition of January 29 is a weari¬ 
some and offensive rebuttal of a 
number of views which I have 
neither expressed nor hold. How- 
eves 1 , as he should know, it is a feet 
that Britain was not a multi- 
rcifonnf multiracial society before 
the 1960s and the proportion to 
mala it one was never put to the 
British electorate. 

Approve ofit or disapprove of it 
asone may, it is simply impossible 
to reasonably daim that people 
here were ever asked to vote on it 
What is more, 1 have made plain 
in word and deed that I entirely 
Op pose unfair riigmminatinn on 
grounds of colour or religion. 

None foe less in one important 
paragraph Mr Moman puts his 


Anomalies in test of parenthood 


From DrSL G. D. NewiB 
Sir, You report (January 22) that 
some Scottish peers arc becoming 
alarmed lest the blue blood of 
Scottish aristocracy becomes con¬ 
taminated with the red blood of 
semen donors. This alarm is based 
on the assumption that the father 
of a child bora following donor 
insemination is always the donor 
of the semen. 

This is not necessarily the case, 
since any man who is producing 
sperms, however few, could be the 
actual father ofhis child providing 
he is living with the child’s 
mother. It is quite impossible to 
prove that he is not, since he 
cannot be compelled to submit to 
blood or other tests. 

This applies equally to men who 
have been declared sterile cm the 
strength of semen analysis. I have 
known of two couples, referred for 
artificial insemination by donor 
(AID) on the grounds of the 
husband's total sterility, where the 
husband has subsequently impreg¬ 
nated his wife anrf his fertility 
been confirmed by myself 

It is normal practice for couples 
who have a child following AID to 
register the husband as the child's 
father. This practice is not nec¬ 
essarily dishonest, since he could 
well be the child’s actual father. 
Yours faithfully, 

ROBERT NEWILL, 

Fern Court, 39 Park Road, 
Aldebuigh, Suffolk. 

January 23. 

Unwanted fathers 

From Mrs Ian W. Merry 
Sir, In my six years as a social 
worker with one-parent families, 
for the Diocese of Winchester, I 
frequently encountered unmarried 
mothers who were most anxious 
that “the father” should have no 
hold over them or their child, nor 
know their whereabouts. 

In the permissive late seventies 
and early eighties, these young 
women might have had only brief 
contact wife the man in question, 
or might have grown to dislike or 
mistrust him on better acquaint¬ 
ance. Some had turned out to be 
violent, some to have c riminal 
records, some to be married, some 
were still schoolboys. 

Tncfgari of merely stonewalling 
tile importunate enquiries of so¬ 
cial security officials and being 
branded as unco-operative, such 
young women found it easier to 
say that they had no idea who the 
father might be. In some cases, of 
course, this was true. 

Yours faithfully, 

ROSEMARY EL MERRY, 

3 The Grange, 

Hartley Winmey, 

Hampshire. 

January 22. 

From his Honour Lyall Wilkes 
Sir, Your leader (January 18) on 
paternal responsibility is dearly 
correct when it suggests that the 
very special debt to maintain one’s 
child should be made a matter for 
the criminal law to enforce; At the 
moment, the mere civil debt 
arising from an attachment of 
earnings order is avoided and 
evaded and discharged by the 
father leaving his job as soon as he 
hears the order has been made; 

The problem is compounded by 
the fact that many one-parent 
mothers will prefer the easier 
option of State benefit rather than 
playing any pert in incurring the 
hostility of the father in any 
attempt to make him pay. It is 
mothers as well as fathers who 
have to be persuaded that it is 
right that fathers be compelled to 
support their children. 

What we are reaping today is the 
whirlwind from Government and 

Manchester poll tax 

From the Leader qf Manchester 
City Council 

Sir, On January 23 you published 
a stray daiming that “creative 
accounting” deals by the city 
council could push up Manches¬ 
ter’s 1990-91 poll tax to £733 per 
hud. 

This is the shocking figure 
which, the city treasurer reports, 
would be required next year just to 
Ttiafntein services at their 1989-90 
levels. It is the direct result of 
withdrawal of Government finan¬ 
cial. support, particularly the £104 
million which Manchester has lost 
through Government redistribu¬ 
tion of the income from its new 

iititfiwi K twrinftga rntc. 

You failed to mention that the 
tity council’s so-called creative 
accountancy schemes have bene¬ 
fited Manchester residents enor¬ 
mously, bringing more than £100 
million of extra fending to the city 
during the past four years. This 
enabled the council to protect jobs 
and services which, unhappily, are 

finger right on a point which I 
have made, although he seems not 
to be aware of that. He writes: 

That does not mean minorities 
should be given pr eferen tia l treat¬ 
ment: they should receive equal 
treatment. 

Leave aside that I would say not 
equal but the same treatment, the 
important point is that the Gov¬ 
ernment’s proposals are riddled 
with “preferential treatment” of a 
select group. 

First, Hong Kong Ch i nese are to 
be admitted ahead of and in 
preference to Asian and Caribbean 
would-be immigrants, dose rel¬ 
atives of those already lawfully 
settled here. Second, there is to be 


Letters to the Editor should carry 
a daytime telephone ntanber. They 
may be sent to a fax namber — 
(91)7825046. 


From Ms JaneMeBor 
Sir, It wins that Mrs Thatcher's 
speech at the National Children’s 
Home (report, January 17) struck 
a positive note with a large section 
of the public when she addressed 
the complex issue of maintenance 
payments by absentee fathers. Is it 
not curious, then, that this same 
Government is at present nego¬ 
tiating a Bill through Parliament 
which win create the very situa¬ 
tion that Mrs Thatcher is so eager 
to avoid? 

The current Human Ferti- 
isation and Embryology Bill will, 
through danse 4(1 Xb), allow 
women who are neither married 
nor co-habiting to become parents 
through ar tificial insemination us¬ 
ing donated sperm (AID). In 
addition, danse 27 of the Bill says 
that the man who has donated 
sperm will not be considered as 
the father of the child (unless it is 
his wife who is inseminated). 

The fall impact of these clauses 
is that national resources may 
legally be used to encourage single 
parenthood and that the children 
bom to single women in these 
circumstances statutorily would 
have no father. Cannot the Gov¬ 
ernment see the financial and 
moral inconsistency of this aspect 
of the Bill? 

Yours faithfully, 

JANE MELLOR (Research Officer), 
Care (Christian Action Research 
& Education), 

S3 Romney Street, SW1. 

January 29. 

Church support in the cause of 
easy divorce (see the Church’s 
document. Putting Asunder). The 
aftermath of broken homes, of 
children fleeing from home and 
“sleeping rough” to escape from 
stepp ar ents with whom they do 
not get on, are only some of the 
symptoms of this breakdown. 

At the moment legally-aided 
divorce is an expensively sub¬ 
sidised self-inflicted wound on the 
community, and restoring “con¬ 
duct” as an eventual element in 
the granting of divorce decrees is 
called for. The divorce laws have 
become as amoral as some of the 
people they seek to serve. 

Yours faithfully, 

LYALL WILKES, 

The Gin-Gan, 

Ogle, 

Newcastle upon Tyne. 

January 18. 

From Mr John D. Crusthwaite 
Sir, In your leader you advocate, 
clearly, your support forthe Prime 
Minister's initiative in dosing the 
loophole on deserting fathers 
av oiding main tenance of their 
children following divorce; and 
few would disagree with this 
principle. 

However, it is to be hoped that 
.Government will, at the same 
time, review and clarify the 
relationship between the two ele¬ 
ments of ancillary relief Namely, 
the adjustment of capital assets 
and income between the parties, 
which at present are viewed 
separately by the courts. There are 
many cases where, after the courts 
have exercised their discretion in 
this respect, the parent with 
custody has abdicated respon¬ 
sibility by evicting the child. 

It would bea travesty if paternal 
responsibility in these circum¬ 
stances was trapped with a finan¬ 
cial obligation as a debt, owed to 
the State, through Revenue means 
as a tax or any other statutory 
device; following property adjust¬ 
ment, lump sum and periodical 
payment orders, made in good 
faith by the courts. 

Yours truly, 

JOHN D. CROSTHWAITE, 

5 RaneJagh Place, 

New Malden, Surrey. 

January 22. 

now threatened by the corrosive 
poll tax. 

Incidentally, the Government 
has now declared that Manchester 
will gain so greatly from the 
introduction of poll tax that each 
of its residents must pay £71 next 
year to help poll tax payers in less 
fortunate parts of the country — a 
malicious joke lost on the people 
of Manchester. 

What will Manchester’s actual 
poll tax level be? For about three 
months, the city council has been 
assuring everyone, including 
newspapers which would listen, 
that it would not impose a tax 
anywhere sear £700. It Is aiming 
to get the figure down nearer £400, 
a desperate task which deserves 
understanding rather than asper¬ 
sions by the press. 

Sincerely, 

GRAHAM STRINGER, 

Leader, 

Manchester Gty Council, 

Town Hall, 

Manchester M60. 

January 29. 

a p r e fe r en tial treatment both of 
some Hong Kong Chinese as 
opposed to others and as opposed 
to tiie Hong Kong Asians who are 
likely to finish up worst of aH 
What is perhaps more worrying 
is that the views Mr Moman holds 
on the immig ration issue in 
general are, in my view, incompat¬ 
ible with those of the party in 
whose name he intends to stand as 
a parliamentar y candida te 

I may be right or wrong, in a 
minority or majority, but I stand 
precisely, dearly and exactly on 
the policies on which I and every 
Conservative member of Par¬ 
liament was elected and which I 
would have expected all Conser¬ 
vative candidates to support. 

Yours faithfully, 

NORMAN TEBBIT, 

House of Commons. 

January 29. 


Ways of handling 
aggressive dogs 

From his Honour Michael Argyte, 
QC. and MrsArgyle 
Sir, Of course no condolences can 
help the agonised and grieving 
parent of the little girl killed by 
Rottweilers. Nor (if it really be 
true) can anyone justify obscene 
messages from Rottweiler owners 
or desecration of the grave. 

But the position is not helped by 
intemperate language or a policy 
of extermination, as proposed by 
Bernard Levin (January 29). Rott¬ 
weilers are very strong and re¬ 
spond well to whatever training 
they receive. 

Of course, some are obviously 
owned or handled by inadequate 
or irresponahte people, and it is to 
be recognised that a minority of 
them may act unpredictabty. But 
our three daughters, as tiny child¬ 
ren. loved and were loved by their 
grandmother’s Rottweilers — one 
bitch and, later, one dog. Such 
cases are legion, but it seems 
impossible to get the media to 
recognise this. 

Yours faithfully, 

MICHAEL ARGYLE 
(Vice-President, Midland 
Rottweiler Club), 

ANN ARGYLE (Immediate Past 
President), 

The Red House. Fiskexton, 

Nr Southwell, Nottinghamshire. 
January 30. 

From the Chairman of the London 
Boroughs Association 
Sir, No sensible person — and I 
indude even the most fervent dog 
lover — could argue with Bernard 
Levin’s conclusions on the need 
for some form of legislation to 
control potentially dangerous 
dogs. 

The London Boroughs Associ¬ 
ation has proposed that the Gov¬ 
ernment should take advantage of 
the impending review of the 
Dangerous Wild Animals Act 
1976 to include such “pets” as 
Rottweilers, pit boll ter r i ers , and 
other dogs which are dearly bred 
for their strength and aggression. 
Under these proposals, the breed¬ 
ing, selling, and owning of specific 
categories of dogs would be re¬ 
stricted to licence-holders, with 
local authorities having the right 
to refuse licences to anyone 
considered unsuitable. 

It is imperative that new legisla¬ 
tion to control aggressive dogs is 
brought in quickly in the light of 
the Government’s failure to in¬ 
troduce a nationwide dog registra¬ 
tion scheme, with a realistic 
licence fee, as argued for by the 
RSPCA, ourselves, and many 
other organisations. 

Y ours fa ithfully, 

PETER BOWNESS, Chairman, 
London Boroughs Association, 

23 Buckingham Gate, SW1. 
January 29. 

Homes without TV 

From Mr Alan Essex-Crosby 
Sir, The outbreak of bumbledom 
in Durham described by Mr 
Gerald Bonner (January 22) in¬ 
spired by his refosal to complete 
mid return an enquiry form issued 
from the Bristol computer does 
not surprise me. Over almost 20 
years I have been receiving forms 
asking why I have no TV licence, 
with visits from inspectors. They 
hunt after dark wi« the dusthin 
foxes! 

On the last occasion I sent a 
copy of the form (which I had 
completed and returned) to my 
MP. I made then a suggestion that 
the burden of chasing TV default¬ 
ers should be put on the TV trade 
explaining bow this could be done. 

My letter having been passed on 
to the Minister of State; Home 
Office, in due course I received a 
copy of his reply explaining that 
the Records Office maintains a 
computerised list of addresses 
throughout the country with a 
note against each one as to 
whether or not a licence is held. 
The minister added: 

If your constituent co nfirm s that 
there is no television in use at his 
address be should not be troubled 
again for some time. 

However, in all I have had to 
deal with this situation at least 
seven times. The minister com¬ 
pletely ignored my suggestion for 
an alternative system. 

Yours truly, 

A. ESSEX-CROSBY, 

3 Brantwood Court, 

Brentwood Rise, 

Banbury, 

Oxfordshire. 

January 23. 

A knotty question 

From Mr M. Lynas 
Sir, My own preference is for the 
end of a tie to just reach the belt 
line (letters, January 20, 27). But 
surely, the really knotty question 
must be concerned with how to 
achieve this precise position first 
time, every time, when ties are all 
different lengths. 

Yours faithfully, 

M. LYNAS, 

Muiifidd, Foxgrove Lane, 
Felixstowe, 

Suffolk. 

From Mrs Katharine JIf inchin 
Sir, In the matter of making ends 
meet the onlooker sees more of the 
game. Ends level with the last 
visible button often leave a great 
deal too much shirt visible to the 
onlooker in an area most men 
would p refe r not to be drawn to 
attention. Ends to the “belt-tine” 
thus avoid ridicule and claming 
bins as the shorter version often 
appears in the soup. 

Yours faithfully, 

KATHARINE MINCHIN, 
Kelross, Lutener Road, 
Easebourne, 

Midhurst, 

West Sussex. 













14 


THE TIMES THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1 1990 



COURT 

AND 

SOCIAL 


OBITUARIES 


COURT 

CIRCULAR 

BUCKINGHAM PALACE 
January 31: The Queen was 
repre sen t e d by tbe Viscount 
Boyne (Lord in Waiting) ax the 
Memorial Service for Sir 
Charles Smftb-Ryland (Her 
Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant for 
Warwickshire) which was held 
in Coventry Cathedral today. 

The Duke of Edinburgh was 
represented by Colonel Gerald 
Leigh. 

The Princess Royal was repre¬ 
sented by the Hon Mrs Legge- 
Bcmxfce. 

The Duchess of York today 
attended the Memorial Service 
for Sir Charles Smilh-Ryland 
which was held in Coventry 
Cathedral. 

KENSINGTON PALACE 
January 31: The Prince of 
Wales, Royal Patron, Chindits 
Oid Comrades Association, held 
a reception for the Chmdit 
Memorial Appeal in the Ken¬ 
sington Palace State 
Apartments. 


Service for Sir Char l es Smith* 
Ryiand which was held at 
Coventry Cathedra). 

The Princess Margaret, Coun¬ 
tess of Snowdon was repre¬ 
sented by The Lady Glenconner 
at the Memorial Service for Sir 
Charles Smith-Ryland which 
was held in Coventry Cathedral 
today. 

Princess Alice, Duchess of 
Gloucester and The Duke and 
Duchess of Gloucester were 
re pre sented by Major Nicholas 
Borne at the Memorial Service 
for Sir Charles Smith-Ryland 
which was held in Coventry 
Cathedral today. 

YORK HOUSE 
ST JAMES'S PALACE 
January 31; The Duke and 
Duchess of Kent were repre¬ 
sented by Colonel Patrick 
Robinson at the Memorial Ser¬ 
vice for Sir Charles Smith- 
Rytand which was held at 
Coventry Cathedral today. 

THATCHED HOUSE LODGE 
RICHMOND PARK 
January 31: Princess Alexandra, 
Patron, this afternoon received 
Miss Eileen Northway upon 


ALLEN BARKE 

From £2-a-week timekeeper to the top at Ford 


The Princess of Wales, Patron, relinquishing the appointment 
London Symphony Chorus, at- u Mawon-in-Chief of Queen 


tended a concert at the Royal 
Festival Hall, SWl. 

Mrs James Lonsdale and 

Ljen twian t ^Vimnumd^r ^»trlrb 
Jephson, RN were in atten¬ 
dance. 

The Prince and Princess of 
Wales were represented by the 
Lord Stafford at the Memorial 


Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nurs¬ 
ing Service and Miss Jane Titky 
on assuming the appointment 
Her Royal Highness was 
represented by Sir Angus Ogjlvy 
at the Memorial Service for Sir 
Charles Smith-Ryland which 
was held in Coventry Cathedral 
today. 


Today’s royal 
engagements 

The Princess of Wales will visit 
the Crown Pools Swimming 
Complex, Crown Street Ips¬ 
wich. at 10.55; the British 
Te le com and Dupont Technol¬ 
ogies factory's research estab¬ 
lishment, Whitchouse Indus¬ 
trial Estate, at 11.40; will open 
the new Suffolk Record Office, 
Gatacre Road, ai 1.05; and, as 
Patron of Relate, will visit the 
Relate Ipswich and Suffolk Mar¬ 
riage Guidance at 19 Power 
Street at 1.4a 

The Pri nc ess Royal, as Presi¬ 
dent of the British Knitting aod 
Clothing Export Council, will 
visit the Design in Knitwear 
Show at the Connaught Rooms 
ax 1Z0Q; and, as President of the 
National Agriculture Centre Ru¬ 
ral Trust, will attend a meeting 
as 35 Bdgrave Square at 2.00. 
Princess Alexandra will visit the 
factory and offices of the 
London Association for the 
Blind at 14-16 Veraey Road, 
SE16, at 2J0. 


Marriages 

Lord Worsley 
and Miss A-K. Zeceric 
The marriage took place on 
Friday, at All Saints’ Church, 
Broddesby, Lincolnshire, of | 
Lord Worsley, son of the Earl 
and Countess of Yarborough, of [ 
Broddesby Park, Lincolnshire, 
to Miss Anna-Karu Zecevic, 
daughter of Mr and Mrs George 
Zecevic, of 1 Swan Walk, 
London, SW3. The Reverend 
Stephen Phillips and Father 
Milun Kostic officiated. 

The bride, who was given in 
marriage by her father, was 
attended by Tanya Pesko and 
Laura Casey. Mr Peter Cowan 
was best man. 

The reception was held at 
Broddesby Park and the honey¬ 
moon will be spent abroad. 

Mr C. Sorenson 
and Miss F. Gascoyne 
The marriage took place on 
Saturday, January 27. m Lud¬ 
low, of Christopher Sorenson 
and Felicity Gascoyne. 


Allen Barke, the £2-a-week 
timekeeper who rose to be¬ 
come Managing Director and 
Chief Executive of Ford of 
Britain from 1962 to 1965, 
died on January 29, aged 86. 
Allen Barke was probably the 
last head of a major car maker 
who started out by walking the 
long mile to the factory gates 
and asking for any job 
available. 

Later in life when he 
described his start Barke said: 
“It wasn't the job I wanted but 
it was work and. 1 only had a 
couple of pounds left.” 

His career at Ford was 
tragically cut short A giant of 
a man — well over 6 feet tall 
and heavily built — he was 
struck down by a massive 
attack of hepatitis which re¬ 
duced him to a shadow of his 
former self After a long spell 
in hospital he returned to 
work but was clearly not the 
man he had been. 

In July, 1965, he resigned as 
Managing Director and Qrief 
Executive bnt continued as a 
Director. Even this proved too 
much and a month later he 
relinquished all executive 

In September 1966 he was 
appointed non-executive 
Vice-Chairman, a post he held 
until he retired in April, 1968, 
aged 65. 

James Alien Barke was born 
on April 16, 1903. He joined 
Briggs Motor Bodies — the 
supplier of most of Ford’s car 
bodies — in 1932 when the 
now huge Dagenham complex 
was still being developed. He 
soon switched from timekeep¬ 
ing to the purchasing depart¬ 
ment and in 1947 became 
Briggs’s Grief Buyer. 

From 1948 to 1953 he was 
the Manag er in charge of 
Briggs’s subsidiary Leaming¬ 
ton Foundry. 

In 1953 Ford decided to 
follow BMCs acquisition of 
Fisher and Ludlow’s body 
plant in Birmingham by tak- 



SIR PAUL DAVIE 

Legislation against smog 
in the City of London 


Sir Paul Christopher Davie, a 
former Assistant Legal Advi¬ 
sor io the Home Office and 
Remembrancer of the City of 
London, died on January 25 at 
the age of 88. 

It was as City Remem¬ 
brancer from the mid 1950s — 
a post serving as the channel 
of communication with gov¬ 
ernment ministers fra’both the 
Lord Mayor and the City 
Corporation, and reflecting 
the city’s interests m Par¬ 
liamentary legislation - that 
Davie was closely concerned 
with the local Act promoted to 


public duty and, consistent 
with this, in 1936 be joined the 
T^ t Advisors’ Branch at the 
Home Office. 

He will be particularly 
remembered for his work in 
connection with the 
reorganization of the police, 
fire and civil defence services 
during and immediately after 
the Second World War. He 
became Assistant legal Advi¬ 
sor in 1947, but in 1953 
resigned to become Gty 
Remembrancer. 

Davie was a hereditary free¬ 
man of Barnstaple and came 


deal with the prevention of of a family which had its roots 
smog and atmospheric pollu- in Devon and had contributed 


tog over Briggs. Appointed 
Director and General Man¬ 
ager of Briggs, a post he held 
for the next six years, Barke 
was given the task of amal¬ 
gamating the two companies. 
He said later “It was a really 
tough assignment They were 
almost as big a company as 
our own.” 

In 1959 he made the move 
that was to bring him to the 
attention of the then Chair¬ 
man of Ford of Britain, Sir 
Patrick Hennessy, by taking 
an even tougher job as Direc¬ 
tor of Ford's Product Division 
and becoming the man 
responsible for obtaining the 


maximum output from plants 
being increasingly affected by 
unofficial strikes. 

In September, 1961, he was 
appointed Assistant Managing 
Director and it became ob¬ 
vious that he was, in feet, 
being groomed by Sir Patrick 
— one of the hardest task 
masters in the motor industry 
at the time -as his successor. 
The following April he was 
promoted Managing Director 
and a year later indeed suc¬ 
ceeded Sir Patrick as Chief 
Executive. 

He retained his native 
Mancunian accent; this and 
the calm outlook he projected. 


puffing away at his beloved 
pipe — he had a large collec¬ 
tion on his desk — enabled 
him to converse easily with 
even the most difficult union 
negotiators. 

A climber and walker, he 
was also a keen and capable 
gplfer. This is acknowledged 
annually at Ford when all 13 
of its British plants send teams 
of four to compete for the 
Allen Barke Shield. 

He was twice married; both 
his wives predeceased him. He 
is survived by two sons and a 
daughter of his first marriage 
and a step-daughter of the 
second. 


tion in the City. 

This Act stirred the govern¬ 
ment of the day into taking 
action nationally and afforded 
the precedent on which the 
Clean Air Act of 1956 was 
largely modelled. 

He served as Chairman of 
the National Deaf Children’s 
Society from 2970 to 1974 and 
was its Vice President until his 
death. 

Paul Christopher Davie was 
boro oa September 30, 1901, 
and educated at Winchester 
and at New College, Oxford. 
He was called to the Bar by 
Lincoln’s Inn in 1925 and 
entered Chambers specializing 
in local government law. 

Davie had a strong sense of 


, of which 
been High 


much to the count 
hisj_ 

Sheriff 

Though his adult life was 
spent in London and the south 
east of England, Davie always 
remained a West Countryman 
at heart. 

He was a knowledgeable 
man on a most wide-ranging 
and unconnected collection of 
subjects which had, at one 
time or another, attracted his 
interest He was a dilettante in 
the best sense of that word. 

In 1967 he was knighted for 
his public services and retired 
from the office of City 
Remembrancer the same year. 

He leaves his widow, Betty, 
a son and a daughter. 


ARNAUD d’USSEAU 

Screenwriter victim of McCarthy era 


BOB GERARD 

A dogged amateur challenge to the motor racing stars 


Anniversaries 

BIRTHS: Sir Edward Coke, 
jurist and politician, Milehun, 
Norfolk, 1552; John Kemble, 
actor-manager. Prescot, Lan¬ 
cashire, 1757; Emile Littrfc, 
lexicographer, Paris, 1801; 
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, poet 
and dramatist, Vienna, 1874; 
Dame Clara Butt, contralto, 
Southwick, Sussex, 1872; Louis 


Saint Laurent, prime minister of | 
Canada 1948-57, Compton, 
Quebec, 1882; John Ford, film 
director. Cape Elizabeth, Maine, 
1895; Clark Gable, Cadiz, Ohio, 
1901; S J Perelman, humorous 
writer, New York, 1904. 

DEATHS: Rene Descartes, 
philosopher, Stockholm, 1650; 
Mary WoUstonecraft Shelley, 
novelist, London, 1851. 


Dinners 


FraKema’Company 
Alderman Sir David Rowc- 
Hazn, Lord Mayor locum te- 
nens. was a speaker at the 
annual livery dinner of the 
Fruiterers’ Company held last 
night at Plaisterers’ HalL Sir 
Edward du Omn, Master, pre¬ 
sided, assisted by Mr David 
Hohnen, Upper Warden, Mr 
Alan Todd, Renter Warden, and 
the Court of Assistants. Lord 
Armstrong of nminsier, Mr 
Michael Barton and Com¬ 
mander Michael Styles, clerk, 
also spoke. Among those 
present were: 

llw French Ambassador. Ow Aboms- 
rador of Fedora) Republic of 
OoRMtO'. me McoanMano AnrtxB- 
•aaor. nw Man CommBMensr for 
Zbabafewa. me Zbmbtan Hta» Com- 

Mr ArnoM Kemp. Mr DShattock. Mr 
R CiUn.iM me Matters or me 
PUmroV. cam ena i 1 aod Formers - 


To Sr Stanley Matthews 
Sir Stanley Matthews was the 
guest of honour at a dinner held 

last night at the Royal Lancaster 

Hotel to mark his'seventy-fifth 

birthday. Mr Gyles Brandreth, 

Chairman of the National Play¬ 

ing Fields Association, and 
Lieutenant-Colonel R.G. Satter- 
thwaite. Vice-President of the 
British Sports Trust, were the 
hosts. 

Sir Walter Winierbottom. Mr 
Lawrie McMencmy, Mr Cliff 
Morgan and Mr Bob Bevan also 
spoke. Among others present 


Mr Dam* How*n. MR. Lady Mat¬ 

thew*. Mrs Gyles Brandrett. Mrs R G 
Satterttiwalte. Mrs Lawrl* 
McMencmy. Mr Danny Btanchflower. 

Mr aM Mrs flaUar Moore. Mr Bobby 

Robson. Mr BiHy Whom. Mr F«ier 

AHa, Mr Charlie Chnttr. Mr Hans 

Jakob. Mr Mch Carter, Mr Alfredo 
D* SteCmo. Mr Ted Drabs. Mr Tom 

Finney. Mr BUI Fax. Mriwi Franklin, 

kg'Marry Haddock. Miss Kale Hoey. 

MP. Mr Roy Kennedy, Mr Mitten 

MOteMc. Mr p Kenyan. Mr P Lawson. 
Mr j Mlddlenna and Mr M Reynolds. 

The Savfle Club 
The Savile Oub held a dinner at 

69 Brook Street, on Wednesday 

night to celebrate the 80th 
birthday of Mr Edgar Duchin. 
Seventy Savilians attended and 
Mr Philip Darwin was in the 
chair. 

Cardiff Business Club 
The Lord Lieutenant for South 

Glamorgan, Mrs Susan & Wil¬ 

liams; The High Sheriff of South 
Glamorgan, Mr C.L. Pollard; 
The Lord Mayor of Cardiff; 
Councillor Mis Bcu Jones; Vice 
Chairman of South Glamorgan 
County Council, County Coun¬ 
cillor D. Francis and the Presi¬ 
dent of Cardiff Business Oub, 
Sir Cennydd Traherne, were 
present at a dinner held by the 

club at the Royal Hotel, Cardiff, 

last flight. The guest Speaker 
was Mr Gavin Laird. General 
Secretary, Amalgamated En¬ 
gineering Union. Mr Michael E. 
Knight, Agent. Bank of England, 

Bristol, presided. 

Forum UK 
Mrs Jean Denton, Chairman of | 
Forum UK presided at a dinner 
held last night at the Ritz. The 
guest speaker was Sir John 
Fairclough. Chief Scientific Ad¬ 
viser at the Cabinet Office. 


Bob Gerard, who died on 
January 28 at the age of 76, 
was considered Britain’s fore¬ 
most driver when motor rac¬ 
ing began again in 1946 after 
the war, although many of his 
exploits .were achieved with 
machinery which his conti¬ 
nental rivals scorned. 

Gerard was a triple winner 
of the British Empire Trophy 
in the Isle of Man. He twice 
won the Jersey international 
road race and also won the 
tough Ulster Trophy over the 
granite-chipped roads of the 
Dundrod circuit outside 
Belfast 

Frederick Robert Gerard, 


“Bob” as be was always called, 
was bom on January 19,1914. 
On leaving school Gerard 
joined the family motor busi¬ 
ness at Leicester where he first 
became interested in motor 
sport and always enjoyed sup¬ 
port from his father. He made 
his racing debut in 1933 at 
Donington, driving a Riley, 
and was a well-known figure at 
Brookiands. But he always 
yearned for more powerful 
machinery. 

His opportunity came in 
1934 as the result of the 
introduction of the new ERA 
(English Racing Automobiles) 
which were first produced in 


1934 in 1.5 litre form and 
updated in 1937. From 1946 
to 1951 the Bob Gerard racing 
team of ERAs and Rileys, 
although strictly amateur, 
played havoc with the oppo¬ 
sition, and the familiar pale 
green cars did much to re¬ 
awaken British hopes and 
ambitions. 

Any racing driver who fin¬ 
ished second in the 1949 
British Grand Prix at 
Silverstone in his outdated 
pre-war ERA and was then 
placed sixth in the 1950 
Monaco Grand Prix behind 
Fangio and Ascari — plus 
setting fastest lap — is entitled 


to his niche in motor racing 
history. 

Gerard switched to Cooper- 
Bristol in the latter pan of his 
career and finished 11th in the 
1953 French Grand Prix and 
10th in the 1954 British Grand 
Prix. Whatever he drove, 
many factory teams in the 
immediate post-war period 
had cause to fear the persis¬ 
tence of the dogged and be¬ 
spectacled Leicestershire man. 

He suffered a stroke in 
1970, but still maintained his 
interest in motor sport to 
which he gave so much over 
nearly 60 years. 

He is survived by his wife. 


Arnaud d’Usseau, the play¬ 
wright and screenwriter whose 
political convictions forced 
him out of America during the 
McCarthy inquisition in 
Hollywood during the 1950s, 
has died in New York City at 
the age of 73. He had recently 
undergone surgery for stom¬ 
ach cancer. 

D’Usseau was bora to a 
theatrical family in Los An¬ 
geles on April 18, 1916. For 
the past several years he had 
lived in New York, where he 
taught writing at New York 
University and at the School 
of Visual Art His father was a 
movie producer and scenarist, 
his mother an actress. 

Their son began writing 
professionally in the 1930s 
and his RKO film* included 
One Crowded Night, Repent at 
Leisure, and The Man who 
wouldn't Die. 

After the war, during which 
D’Usseau served with the US 
Army Signal Corps, he wrote a 
number of successful Broad¬ 
way plays with James Gow. 
One of the most famous was 
Deep are the Roots (1945), 
which contained a then scan¬ 
dalous miscegenation scene in 
the course of its overall plea 
for racial tolerance. 


In 1952, D'Usseau’s name 
was connected with subpoenas 
being issued by the House of 
un-American Activities Com¬ 
mittee, investigators probing 
alleged communist infiltration 
of the film industry. Then in 
1953 he was brought before 
the Senate investigation sub¬ 
committee headed by Senator 
Joseph McCarthy. 

The exchanges which cap¬ 
tured worldwide attention be¬ 
tween d’Usseau and 
McCarthy grew so fiery that 
the Wisconsin Republican 
threatened to have d’Usseau 
forcibly removed from the 
Washington hearing chamber. 

The playwright had refused 
to answer any of McCarthy’s 
questions, saying be would 
gladly debate communism 
and capitalism on neutral 
ground “but not where you 
Have everything stacked.” 

After his blacklisting, 
d’Usseau wrote for the cinema 
under various synonyms. 

The last play he wrote 
before his death is under 
consideration for Broadway 
opening. 

His survivors include his 
wife Marie, his son, a daughter 
and three brothers. 


Bridge 


duel 

was 


Forthcoming marriages 


An interesting bridge 
held over three days 
organized by Irving Rose and 
sponsored by Demetri March 
essini at the Meridian Hotel, 
London to by to determine 
the respective merits 
‘Naturals” v "Scientists” bid¬ 
ding methods. 

Eight world class players 
from five countries took part 
but inevitably no fair compar¬ 
ison could be obtained from 
scratch partnerships. The con¬ 
test was played over 128 
boards with each player play¬ 
ing with each ofhis Three team 
mates. The "Scientists" won 
the first match 141-108 imps. 
The “Naturals" won the sec¬ 
ond match 187-68. In the third 
and final match held yesterday 
the “Scientists" had an 
overwhelming victory by III- 
39 but the “Naturals" re¬ 
mained the overall winners by 
334-320. 

Tearai: -NantraJ*": a R Formter 
(Emdand). G Chagas (Brazil). Z 
Mahmoud ipak&tanj. B WooU (USA); 
“SdenBUa": B Gunao UlatyL Vi 
EMntars. P Safeway. St Goldman (all 


Mr JJVLC. Bentley 
and Miss LA. Chinery 
The engagement is announced 
between Jeremy Michael 
Charles, eldest son of Mr and 
Mrs Michael Bentley, of 
London, and Lori Asrne, youn¬ 
ger daughter of Mr and' Mrs 
Alan Chin cry, of Parkview, 
Johanncshcrg. 

Mr N. Boote 
and Miss J. Steiner 
The engagement is announced 
between Nicholas, youngest son 
of Colonel Michael Boote and 
the late Mrs Elizabeth Boote. of 
Tomaiin. Invemesshire. and 
Jane, daughter of Mr and Mrs 
Konrad Steiner, of London, W8. 

Dr AJVL Brown 
and MhsAJ.PtXtell 
The forthcoming marriage is 
announced be t ween Tony, son 
of Mr and Mrs F.W. Brown, of 
E2lbam. London, and Alison, 
daughter of Dr and Mrs FJ. 
Powell, of Compton Chamber- 
la yne, Salisbury. 

Mr SC. Lewinton 
and Miss FJ. Court 
The engagement is announced 
between Stephen, elder son of 
Mr Christopher Lewinton, of 
London. SW l. and Mrs Jennifer 
Lewinton. ofSunningdaie, Berk¬ 
shire. and Fiona, elder daughter 
of Dr and Mrs Gordon Court, of 
Tonbridge. Kcm. 

Mr G.A-R- Masters 
and Miss J. GoodaU 
The engagement is announced 
between Guy, younger son of 
Lieutenant Colonel and Mrs 
C.P. Masters, of Watford, and 

Jan, only daughter of Mr and 

Mrs E.A. Goodal!, Of 
Wey bridge. 


Mr F. MeKcdkhiu 
and Miss N. Kurland 
The engagement is announced 
between Fredrick, son of Mr and 
Mrs H. Megedichian. of Ealing, 
London, and Nicola, daughter 
of Mr Philip Kurland, of HoU 
land Park. London, and Mrs 
Joyce Kurland, of Hornsey. 
London. 

Mr B.H.C. Morris 
and Miss NJ. Stevens 
The engagement is announced 
between Huw, son of Lieuten¬ 
ant-Colonel and Mrs Trevor 
Morris, of Donhead St Mary, 
Dorset, and Nathalie, elder 
daughter of Mr and Mrs lan 
Stevens, of Park Place, Hong 
Kong. 

Mr W.C.C. Raynor 
and Miss ELS. Miller 
The engagement is announced 
between William, son of the late 
Colonel and Mrs C.A. Raynor, 
of Fingringhoe, Essex, and 
Sarah, daughter of Mr and Mrs 
Richard Miller, of Nottingham. 
Mr RJV. Tetley 
and Miss S.M. Pinney 
The engagement is announced 
between Robin NieU elder son 
of Lieutenant Commander J.D. 
Tetley RN (retd) and Mrs 
Tetley, of Truro, Cornwall, and 
Sarah Mary, younger daughter 
of Mr and Mrs Bernard Pinney. 
of Lumsden, Southland. New 
Zealand. 

Mr D. Tberon 
and Miss JJ3. Robins 
The engagement is announced 
between Dante, youngest son of I 
the late Mr D. Theron and of| 
Mrs R. Theron, of Mutair, 
Zimbabwe, and Joanna, daugh¬ 
ter of Mr and Mrs M.F. Robins, 
of Standiake, Oxfordshire. 


The English- 
Speaking Union 

The 36th George Washington 
Ball takes place at Grosvenor 
House, Park Lane, on Wednes¬ 
day, February 28, 1990. Tickets 
to include Dinner and Ball, 
dancing to the Bootleg Beatles 
and the Dark Blues, £60 and £40 
each from the ESU Promotions 
Dept. Dartmouth House, 37 
Charles Street, London, W1X 
8AB. Tel: 01-493 3328. _ 

Institution of 

Electrical 

Engineers 

The Institution of Electrical 
Engineers <1EE) is pleased to 
announce that the following 
have been admitted to the class 
of Fellow and are permitted to 
use the designation FI EE: 

Dr M. AfunadL Canau; Mr D w. 
AMrm. Par ran n u a.: Mr T.W. Boa. 

EJInbanji: PiMcnor B. 0>Wp. Har¬ 

row; Or M.J. Buckingham. 
FwnMrough; Mr I w. Bull. EnUi: Mr 
C.T. CMkwaan*. Umbfewc: Mr A-G. 

OanatanuillOca. MnaMrPC Oa 

VMS. Wanugr; Dr ns. Datmgm. 
Hona kook Or ca Dumoa. N«* 

ZOOlana: Mr M. Goddard. Wrytmaw: 

nr J.w. Hand. London: Mr R.C. 
Johnson. AltecMKk: Dr C.L. Looo- 
Cadccdo. Owner. Mr C Mason. 
Prtersflefd: Mr C.H. McClure. 
Ballymena; Mr C.A. Mormon, 
wamratoru Piorrwor a_F. Nn#a. 
Dundee: r rn f i u c j M.A. Rahman. 
Canada; Mir PO. Mfenm, Fareham; 

Goiofwt MP& stew. London: Mr 

F E. S poo n er. Nandcron: Dr S E. 

SIMM*. AM (Stay EMC. Contain C.G. 

wauwr. Oospore Mr o. Wilton, 
Yaovft Mr J.H. Wood. CunMrtey. Mr 
P Yap. Malaysia. 

The science report ap¬ 
pears in the new science 
and technology section, 
pages 35*38. 


Memorial services 


Sir Charles Smith-Ryland 
The Queen was represented by 
Viscount Boyne and the Duke of 
Edinburgh by Colonel Gerard 
Leigh at a service of thanks¬ 
giving for the life or Sir Charles 
Smith-Ryland, Lord Lieutenant 
of Warwickshire, held yesterday 
in Coventry Cathedral. The 
Prince and Princess of Wales 
were represented by Lord Staf¬ 
ford and the Duchess of York 
was present. 

The Princess Royal was repre¬ 
sented by the Hon Mrs Leggp- 
Bourke. Princess Margaret by 
Lady Glenconner. Princess Al¬ 
ice Duchess of Gloucester and 
the Duke and Duchess of 
Gloucester by Major Nicholas 
Barne. the Duke and Duchess of 
Kent by Colonel Patrick Robin¬ 
son and Princess Alexandra by 
the Hon Sir Angus Ogjlvy. 

Tbe Provost of Coventry 
officiated, assisted by Canon 
Michael Sadgrovc, Canon G. 
Hughes and Canon Paul 
OeslreicbcT. The Bishop of War¬ 
wick. Canon Peter Berry. Canon 
S. Sneath, Canon J. Eardley, 
Canon J. Foden. Canon T. 
Mander and the Rev Michael 
Griffiths were robed and in the 
sanctuary. Mr Robin Smith- 
Ryland and Viscount Daventrv 
read the lessons. The Bishop of 
Coventry preached the sermon. 
The Earl of Airtie gave an 
address. Mrs LE.T. Hue Wil¬ 
liams and Miss Petra Smith- 
Ryland. daughters, read from 
the works of Canon Henry Scott 
Holland. 

The Lord Chancellor was 
represented by Mr R.V. 
Grobler. Deputy Secretary of 
Commissions. The Lord 
Lieutenant and tbe High Sheriff 
of the West Midlands, the High 
Sheriff or Warwickshire and 
Mrs Rutherford, the Lord 
Mayor and Lady Mayoress of 
Coventry and the Lord Mayor 
and Lady Mayoress of 
Birmingham attended. Others 
pr esent included: 

TJ» Mo" L»Jy Snrtm-Ryund twidowi. 
Mr DmvW Smiui-RyLand (*>n). miw 
JO jUwia Snuut-Rvtend utauotfitn-i. Mr 
LET Mu* williams nenu-uwi. Lord 
and la d y Cronwortn (Brother-ui-law 
aM NMT4HMI. M mm Uauna 
Gordon. Dw Mwoucn and Mar- 
tW o w a of HunUy. Mr C Gumnra. 
Mr and thr Mon Mn T Sarauon- 
Drooka. Mr and (hr Hon Mrs C 
Mwawnam. Mr and the Hon Mn LG 
SfeMord Sackvm*. Lord and Lady 


TUMnaetw. the Hon Mrs_ 

Major and Mn J Sutton, the Hon 
Hugh and Mn ToUonafli*. Mater and 
Mn fl C Aikentieod. Mrs J JouoMn. 
the Hon M ToUemaclw. Viscount 
Gowdray. Mr and the Han Mrs wre 
Faroes. Mr and the Hon MU C Franr. 
Mr M FUnL V Uc o um Btekenham. 

The Lords Lieutenant OF Bedlord- 
■hfre. Berkshire. Bucldnohannhirr. 
Cheshire. Cumbria. Derbyshire. 
Gloucestershire. Hampshire. Hereford 
and Worcester. Norfolk. Norm- 
turocoraNre. Gnaurdshb-e. Shropshire 
and Wiltshire; the Vice-Lord Lieuten¬ 
ant of Stananbnirr. 

The Duke and Duchess of Man- 
twrauth. me Duke and Duchess of 
weufnoton. the Marchioness of 
Chotanondeley, the Marquess and 
Marchioness of Hertford, me Mar¬ 
ti ness of Aberoavenny. Marouesa 
Camden. Rosemary Marchioness of 
Northampton, the Marquess of 
Blandford. the Co unless or AlrUe. the 
Earl or Setbomr. Ean and countess 
Sraw. the Earl and Countess of 
Denbfeh. Brrtv Gminlrs* of DenMsn. 
Countess Jelllcoe. Hie Earl of 
Normanton. Countess Bathurst, 
viscountess Boyne. Viscountess 
Daventry. Viscount and Vtseoumess 
Knotty-:!. Viscount De L isle. VC. and 
Viscountess De L'lsle. VI■Krooni and 
viscountess Petersham. Mrs b 
Bamnenuvwrard. Lord wiitouatiby de 
Broke. Lady wiUouohby de Broke, the 
Dowager Lady Willoughby de Broke. 
Lora and Lady Farrmam. L«rd 
Dormer. Lord and Lady Guernsey. 
Lord Cnawshow Lord GUwm-Watt 
fRoya) Welsh Agricultural Sodetyi. 
me Dnwagrr Lady Nrtherthorpc. Lord 
M onion. Lord a no Lady Leuh. Lord 
and Lady Tweedsmulr. Lord 
aimmerpr. Lord and Lady Kino of 
Wortnaby. Lord ond Lady Vestry. 
Lady Keith of CasUeacre. Lady Plumb. 
Mr RoMn LHgh-PVfnDerfon (prrotdrnt. 
Royal Agricultural Society of Eng¬ 
land] and Mrs Letah-Prmneriofl. the 
Hon Sir Adam Butin-. MP. and Lady 
Butler. 

Lady Rosemary Muir. Lady Caro¬ 
line OgOvy. Lady Maureen r<Hlnw,-n. 
Lady Laura Parmer, the Hon Lady Oe 
£ufueta, the Hon Jessifa Dkunson. 
Die Hon Mrs Wallace, the Hon Mrs de 
Bunsen, the Hon Mrs R Stanley, the 
Hon M and Mrs Vestry, the Hon Sand 
Mrs Maxwell. Ul» Hon Lady Hastings, 
the Hon Harry and Lady Lemma 
Uvnion Jonmion. the Hon J and Mis 
Morrison, the Hon P and Mrs Ward, 
me Hon Mis w Wallace, the Hon Mrs 
Mormon. Dw Hon Lady Worstcy. the 
Hon P J Fairfax. Die Hon Charles and 
Mrs Cecil the Han R T Goober, me 
Hon sir Richard and Lady Bntl<T. ine 
Hon D P. C Leah, the Hon A C St J 
La waan-Johnston. me Hon Mrs 

t-nucfce. the Mon R T Ftshcr tBUion 
Grange School). Lady Rowley 
trenresenllno Dw Lord LH-utrrumi of 
huiiaii,L Sir Pnillo Naylor Leyiand Sir 
Rupert and Lady Shuckburoh. Sir 
Kereward and Lady Woke. Sir 
Theodore and Ihe Hon Lady 
Brlnckman. Sir Andrew and Lady 
Watson. Anne Lady Jornw. Major sir 
John and Lady Wlgom, Sir Dudley 
and Lady Ferwood. Major Sir wullom 
Bhd Loay Dugaale. Sir Richard and 
Latty Hamilton. Motor General sir 
John Younger (Coldstream Guards). 
Sir Richard and Lady Cooper. 

Lady (Dudley) Smith. Sir Alastotr 
ana Lady turd, lieutenantGoktnal Mr 
John Miller. Colonel Sir Ralph and 
Lady Kliner Brawn. Lady Owen. Sir 
John cgui. Sir Charles and Lady 
Burraan. colonel Sir Andrew and 
Lady Martin. Mr Thomas Skyrme 
i vice-president. Mafestrales' Associ¬ 
ation i. Colonel Sir Hugh Btmsry. Mr 
J twice and Lady Tucker. Lady 
DuttcTworth. Sir Richard and Lady 
vouno. Sir Nloel Strutt. Sir Edward 
Tlwn wwo . SB Coral ond LAdv 
Mamer, Lady Holland-Martin. Sir 
Maurice and tady Dorman. Sir Huoh 
Lennon. Lady Lnmit. Colonel sir 
Piers and Lady Benoouah. Sir Peter 
and Lady Miles. Sir Simon and Lady 
Hornby. Lady Hornby, sir Edmund 


and Lady LMgna. sir Francis and 
Lady Pemberton. Baron van. Motor 
Huso and Lady Caroline Waterhouse. 
Mr and the Hon Mrs R Palmer, Mr 
and the Hon Mrs C M Price. Mr and 
me Hon Mrs C B Holman. Mr and the 
Hon Mrs a Whhe. Mr and the Han 
Mrs H w Was. me Prince and 
Princess of Hanover. 

The Chairman of Warwickshire 
County Council and Mrs Birch. Ihe 
Chief Executive of Warwickshire 
County Council and Clerk of the 
Lieutenancy and Mrs Caulfield, the 
Chairman of Warwick District Coun¬ 
cil. u>e Mayor of North Warwickshire, 
the Mayor and Mayoress of Warwick 
and tuner civic dtennortes: me Chief 
Constables of Warwickshire. the West 
Midlands and North Yorkshire: the 
Chairmen of North and South 
Warwickshire Health Authorities; the 
County Coroner. 

Mater Ronald Pnaonn. Mrs G 
LetOh. Mr C Hambro. Mr and Mn J 
Beckwith-StullI,- Mr and Mrs S Z de 
Ferranti. Mr and Mrs C Hue Williams. 
Mrs j Hue williams. Mrs K Smith- 
Blnoham. Mr and Mrs O Palmer. 
Colonel M D HaU ire present! no GOC 
Wrslem District). Major j 5 Kntoht 

I representing the Colonel, The 
Queen's Own Hussars). Mr R G 
Hobcrw treommUng we Chief Seoul, 
™a representahves of the Warwick¬ 
shire Ma of strum. Warwickshire Jus¬ 
tices' Cirrus. Warwickshire Fire and 
Rescue Service. Warwickshire 
SRAFA. Warwickshire Ploylno Fields 
Association. Warwick-.,>Ur Federation 
or Young Farmers' auto. Warwick¬ 
shire Hunt. Warwickshire Association 
of Boys' Ciuos. Warwickshire County 
Cricket Club. Warwick Casllc. 
Warwickshire College of Agriculture. 
Warwick School 

The Lord Cnontberlain's Office. 
British Red cross Society. Rare Breeds 
Survival Trust. Rugby School. Coun¬ 
try Landowners Association. Sea 
Cadets Association, wm Midlands 
TAJrVBA. CpRC. While's Oub. 
Barclays Rank. The Queen’s Own 
Mercian Yeomanry. Air Training 
Conn. SI John Ambulance BrMooe. 
Royal Observer Corps. OnVal Office 
of Information. National Formers' 
Union. Lord Leyce-Wer Hosgnal. War¬ 
wick. NAC Rural Trust. Roval Real 
mem of Fusiliers. Royal Association of 
British Dairy Farmers. Prlre 
Waterhouse. Royal Shakespeare The¬ 
atre. Royal British Legion and Lazard 
Brothers. 


Mr George Adamson 
A service of thanksgiving for the 
life of Mr George Adamson was 
held yesterday at Si James's. 
Piccadilly. The Rev Donald 
Reeves officiated. Mr Bill Tra¬ 
vers read from Btvana Game by 
George Adamson and a poem 
by Francis Nnaggcnda quoted 
in My Pride and Joy. Dr Kcilh 
Ellringham. a Trustee of ihe 
Elsa Wild Animal Appeal and 
Chairman of the George 
Adamson Wildlife Preservation 
Trust, read the lesson. 

In her address Miss Virginia 
McKenna said: “Wc will all 
have diffcrcnl and personal 
memories — but let us remem¬ 
ber George's hope for the future. 
A hope which inspired so many 
of us and that so many of us 
share with him. 

"Thai we humans will cease 


the senseless slaughter and 
domination of other creatures 
and find in ourselves a com¬ 
passion for all animals, great 
and small, before it is too late. 

"If we do. I think the spirit of 
George — that wonderful, free, 
wild, generous and loving spirit 
— will live amongst us, always.". 

The High Commissioner of 
Kenya was represented by Mr 
M. Ordengjo. Among others 
present were: 

Mn Pamela Canon. Mrs Dorothy 
Cooper. Mias Ulrlcttar Cooper. Mn j 
A Elphtmlonr. Mr ana Mrs P T 
lj nii-wood. Mr and Mn BMC 
Macfarlanc. Dr and Mrs John 
Ro-wnund. Matthew Rosamund. Mr 
and Mrs Henry similar. Joanna and 
Victoria simuiar. Dr and Mrs A C G 
Taonvy, Mr and Mrs JPG Toomay. 
Mrs Morgans Fowler. Mrs Vonconza 
Cooper. ChrtsutotHT Cooper. 

TM Hon BrtgM Wnunrt. Sir 
Chmiontu-r Lever. Sir Vivian Form 
•Royal Geographical Society i with Mr 
Nigel Wlnser lasstsiani direct or) and 
Mrs Wlmer. Or Orntl Jim Jntwn 
i tried leal odvHeri and Dr Male turn o— 
(leader. Kora Research Prcoeci.'. Mr 
and Mn Mark OWn. Mr and Mrs 
Thomas Cullfaylr and Mr -'iul Mrs 
Adrian House ’inonvi Qu Wild 
Animal Appeal I wun Miss Betty 
Henderson and Miss pflcote Hn-hnrr 
fFWAA. Canada*, and Mn M.iiT>ru 
Man lie and Mtsi Ann Tambureuo 
lEWAA. United Stales l Mr Laurence 
Harbonte. Mr Tony Ficrtotin. Mrs J E 
Aurun and Mrs Julie Corning 

Mr Gordon Wnlwvn and Mr Vioot 
Walk Urs (World .Sonny for me 
Pnotrcnon of Animals). Mr Ian 
Marptmll ilniertioUonal Fund for 
Animal Welfare). Mr Jeremiah Munai 
ILOSI African WHO Life Society). Mr 
Mike Morhler and Mt« Frances 
Sudor* iFriends of ConsmaUoni. Mr 
litn Redmond I African Ele-runo*. Mr 
Cnnsloptier Mortehose and Mr BUI 
Swaimon iCdUD» HarvlUi. Mis An¬ 
gela Stem -Collinsi. Colonel Onfl 
Straw and Miss Jane Hunter 'Opera 
(fen Rxdeiali). Brigadier P J Bloke 
iRoyai mniskiuing runners). 

Mr and Mrs Sandy Call. Mr R 
Hammond innes. Prdisa c r Prtrr 
Jewell. Miss Hull Lmska. Mr and Mrs 
Charles Moore. Mr John osrn. Mrs 
David Shepherd. Mr Michael 
Saunders. Mr John Thompson. Mr G 
H Gotlerell. Mr Andrew Gris. Mrs P 
Travers. Mrs L Travers. Mr William 
Travers. Mr Jusun Travers. Mr 
Laurence MarnotUr. Mr Gary Hodors. 
Ihe Rev Guy Bennetl and Mr and Mrs 
Brian Cmhtng. 


Lecture 

Conference for Independent 
Further Education 
The first in a series of lectures, 
"English Literature on.. . its 
head", was presented by CLFE 
in tbe Huxley Theatre, Imperial 
College, University of London, 
yesterday afternoon. The lectur¬ 
ers were: Dr Manyn Crucefix 
(Fine Arts College); Mis Janetta 
Taylor (Padworth College); Mrs 
Felicity McAvoy (Connaught 
College). Mr Richard Smart, 
Principal, Milestone Tutorial 
College, was in the Chair. 
Students from CIFE colleges 
and invited schools attended. 


Reception 


University College London 
Dr D.H. Roberts, the Provost 

and Mrs Roberts, were hosts at a 

reception held yesterday to 
mark the opening of the Arnold 
Mishcon Reading Room at 
University College London. 
Among those present were: 

t-ora and Lady Muncon. Pro f w or 
ana Mn C Abramsky. Ot ManfiM 

Annum. Mr CJUi Blrfc. Mr and Mn 

swnw Corek Hu Honour Judge 
Brart FinniHn. Dr D r Kenter. Sr 
JkWl UgMIuil. Mn CoU-ftr LUtmarv. 

Mr Ala n Moco Ha. MaterjacmgSukL 

Bjkrr .^ocrrterv of (no coupon. Dr 

MJ Gtilar. Protestor J. Frank** au 
cUilrfljf' Friend (Librarian of me 


Viscountess 

Davidson 

A service of dedication of a 
memorial to Viscountess 
Davidson (Baroness 

Northchurch) was held yes¬ 
terday at St Brides, Reel Street. 
The Rev Colin Fox., grandson, 
officiated. Miss Julie 
Sandground. Chairman of The 
Aduomcn. read the lesson. Miss 
Denise Silvcsicr-Cnrr. vice- 
president. Lord Rayleigh, grand¬ 
son. and Baroness' Young paid 
tribute. 


Latest wills 

Ruth Alice Hannah Mary. 
Countess of Halifax, of Low 
House, Kirby Underdalc. North 
Humberside. late racehorse 
owner and breeder, and widow 
of the 2nd Earl Halifax, left 
estate valued at £3.146,718 net. 
She left her estate mostly to 
relatives. 

Sir Peter Markham Scott, CH, 
of Sli in bridge. Gloucestershire, 
artist and naturalist, left estate 
valued at £539.882 net He left 
his travel diaries and notebooks 


:o the Royal Geographical 
Society. 

Mr Graham Henry Bartlett, of 
Nonhaw. Hertfordshire. left es¬ 
tate valued at £3,717,763 net. 


Luncheons 

Royal Navy Club of 1765 and 
1785 

Admiral Sir Nicholas Hunt. 
Chamrum. presided at a lun¬ 
cheon ycsierdav at the Charter¬ 
house given by the Royal Navy 
Oub of 1763 and 1783 in 
honour of Captain Peicr 


Rmshawc CB£ DSC. Royal 
Navy, on bis retirement as 
Secretary, and of Mrs Fanshawc. 
Tbe guests included; 

Admiral of tiw Oral Sir Cdwara and 
Lady Asttmora. Admiral of iho n™i 
W Hmrv and Lady L»»eh. Lady 
Hunt. Admiral Mr Andrew and Lady 
lr»" Admiral Str William «nd L aitv 
oftnm. Admiral Air David and Lndy 
wflUamn. Rw Admiral dir tuimund 
Irving. Rr»r Admiral Sir Hugh and 
Lady Jaunted, logathrr wim iimhwi 
of ihr committer and Dietr laim 

Cauih-UK Chamber of 
Commerce 

Mr Michael Lowe. President of 
the Canada-UK Chamber of 
Commerce, presided at a lun¬ 
cheon held yesterday at Skin¬ 
ners’ HalL Mr Matthew Barrett 


was ihe guest of honour and 
principal, speaker. The Ca¬ 
nadian High Commissioner and 
Mr John Brown, British Consul- 
General. Toronto, were among 
those present. 

Carlton Club Political 
Comm irtec 

Mr Chmtophcr Patten, Sec¬ 
retary of State for the Environ¬ 
ment, was the guest of honour 
and speaker at a luncheon given 
by the Political Corami nee of 
the Carlton Club yesterday at 
the club. Mr Tony Baldry. MP. 
deputy chairman, presided and 
Mr Joseph Egcrton also spoke. 


McLellan 

Galleries 

McLellan Galleries, 270 
Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. A 
seminar on freedom with Neal 
Ascherson, Willie Doherty and 
Caroline Wilkinson. 7.30 - 
9.30pm. 

Birthdays today 

Mrs Jennilcr Adams, superin- 
wtfnu. Central Royal Parks. 
<*-: Sir Kenneth Bond, vice- 
chairman. GEC. 70; Major H. 
Stanley Cayarr. 80; Sir Peter 
CnH. Bailiff of Jersey. 65: Vice- 
Admiral Sir Norman Dalton, 
So; Mrs Joscelme Dimbleby. 
cookery writer. 47; Professor Sir 
Sam Edwards, physicist. 62; the 
Very Rev Eric Evans. Dean of Si 
Riul s. 62; Mr E. Evans, rugby 
player. 65; Mr Robert Gittrogs. 
potft. biographer and play- 
Wright. 79; Sir Douglas Hall, 
termer governor. Somaliland 
Protectorate. SI; Sir Gordon 
Hobday. Lord Lieutenant of 
Nottinghamshire, 74; Professor 
Douglas Johnson, historian, 65; 
Sir Maurice Laing, president. 
John Laing. 72: Mrs Virginia 
Leng, three-day cvcmrr. 35; Sir 
Jack Lyons, company chairman, 
74: Sir Stanley Matthews, foot¬ 
baller. 75; Miss Gwenda Mor¬ 
gan. wood engraver. 82: Lord 
Mountevans. 47; Sir John NotL 
former MP, 58; Professor S.ir 
Mark Richmond, vice-chan¬ 
cellor. Manchester University. 
59: Mr Peter Salhs. actor. 69; 
Mrs Muncl Spark, writer, 72; Sir 
Peter Tapscii, MP. 60; Miss 
Renata Tebaldi, soprano. 68. 





















































































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T HE TIMES T HURSDAY FEBRUARY 1 1990 


ANNOUNCEMENTS & PERSONAL 


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^Bhww ateooarftoma cheap 
-** * *'*?* ' *"* i»i» 

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• javwaw conridtrtnfl outers 

SSSsT* 5, 

1 BIRTHS 1 


BUUfe - Op January 27th. to 
■ Rostron) ana 

. Atetotr. a daughter. Cora 
' - A steer and Mend 

/qr M wwefl Swan. 

' - O" Juuwy am 

. 1990. lo Kami (atm (TNein) 
-and Conrad, a • son. 
Alexander Thomas wmiam. 

'9SSKL: 2 11 d^ow** 

■. 2901-1909 In La Gnune 

' “»* ta *** tofe 
- Thompson) and tan. a 
. JgWMg MMte Aon. 

wwo. to < HarrirtuS 

.Badoert and Adriaan. a 
--daughter. OHvta. * 

***5**-On Januwy 280 l 

J » j»e< nee HOMan-HBli am 
.GconTev. a * son (Inqrnti 

■amjwo-a brother ferSSw! 
W>C0X-On January 27th. a 
. «ytg. Charlotte Emto/to 
State We HanweU) a«m 
Charles, at Fnmborougb. 

- Onjanuw 29m 
-. 1990. at Maidstone Hospital. 
to-Jamoe (nfe cue) and 
■‘^StBOhviu a daughter 
(CbarioOe Emma). 
UWVBE-On January 29th 
*990. -to -Susan fnfe Lundj 
P*to- a eon. David 

ArttiBT. 

■- Mum ■ On January 13 m 
1990. to Anthea titee Brawn) 
and tan. a daughter. Amy 
-Char lotte, a sister for Houy. 
9WCT - On January 22nd. to 
GHHan «nde WorraO) and 
Chrtsioiaier. a daugttts-. 
Jeeto M ay Mirsml 

NNBMW-On January 28th. 

A The West London 
tttpUaL to Alison and Rod. 
_bw. Junes Alexander. ' 
■0** -> On January 30th. 10 
Vhto tote Lind) and 
Stephoka daughter. Joanna 
Unfla. A sister 1 or David and 
Georgina. 

MCHS - On January 28ih 
1990. at King’s Ooheoe 
Hospital. .10 Yvonne (nee 
BoctroflRxu and Rod. a son. 
Paul MtchaeL a brother for 
Catharin e. 

STONm-On January 29th. 
ai Barnsley General HospttaL 
to Victoria Crtee Earle) and 
Peter, a sen. Chrtstooher 
James Basil. 

WATHCN - On January 26th. 

* hi New York, to Julia and 
Smog. a b ox . Francis. 
MKTERTON - On January 
28th. at St George's. Tooting, 
to Robert and Jo. a son. 
Alexander James. , a brother 
for Nicholas Edward. 

VOOM - On January 28th. at 
home. Barrow-Upon-Soar. to 
OedUa tcee) and Alan, a' 
daughter. Laura Helen, a 
enter tor MtchaeL | 

I : GOLDEN I 

I ANNIVERSARIES I 


IADCUFTX.-CUMMIH - on 
February 1st *940. at AU 
Sotos Cathedral. Cairo, 
conducted by Archdeacon 
Rank Johnston. Douglas to 
□ta. now living at Dover. 


DEATHS 


mBB - On January 3 isl 
peacefully aThome. aged 86. 
Helen Mary. Hearty loved 
wtftdT George and mtoher of 
Bridget. Funeral Sendee 4 
pm Friday February 2nd at 
AUeburgh Parish Church, 
InBowed by private 
cremation. No flowers 
please. Donations. lo 
AMeburgb Cottage HOBAaL 


RMUW • On January 
-28tti 199a suddenly, of 
Cxton. WirraL in Ids 78th 
year. .■ Frank ... Sanderson 
Brtmdaw. beloved and 


toving hasband-r.-of' Bess, 
protldand devoted father of 
peter and John and 
grandfather of Hope. 
Founttng - Director- of 


Executive, formerly Genera) 
Manager Birkenhead. 

Stockport and S.H-MJX 
public Transport 

Authorities. “The day thou 
govest Lord is «***«£ 
Funeral Service at St 
Savtar’s Church. Cxton. 
Monday Febuary Sth at 1 . 1 5 
pm. followed by private 
cremation. Family flowers, 
dauadora if desired to CheSL 
Heart and Stroke Founda¬ 
tion. c/o Charles Stoutens 
Funeral Directors. 215 
Bebtogton Road. Rock Ferry. 
L42 4QA <051-645 4396). 

SULMAN - On January 30th. 
at home In Carndes. 
Roquehnme Cap Martin. 
France. written EUertngton. 
aged 85. much loved 
husband of Vera and rather 
of Richard. Mary and the late* 
Charles- Service at SI John’s 
Menton, on February 3rd at 
1030. Family flowers only. 

■UTEMEMT - On January 
25m. Dr. Wtutan Alan 
Stewart, aged 85. of s A Bar¬ 
ry StreeL Kew. MeHxwne. 
Australia, beloved husband 
of Ursula and much loved 
father of Ann BiUemeni and 
Jane Ashcroft and grandfa¬ 
ther of Danielle and Mark. 


k..* On January 
3™J- Peacefully in hos&UaL 
gtay. much loved wife of 
™»n«h anq mother of. 
Kg"** Frances. Clstfre. 
S““2L and tan. Funeral 
service at si Mary-at- 

S 2 SK 2 r ’ k ™ Hen,Ion Laae - 

CJS^W 5 -tan on 
Wednesday February rui. 
to Kelly & Co.. No. 4 
Ulte. London N3 
*3 °r donations If 
P«fwred toT£AR- Fund. 
100 Church . Road. 
JfOtUngtoa. Middlesex 
TV/ll 8 QE- 

~ O" January 30th 
199a Berenice AnUce. aged 
at Portscatho. Cornwall. 

youngest 

daughter or sir Charles 
Ca ^er - 2nd BaroneL 
*5®*® - On January 30th 

"90- very soddeniy. j 

Timothy Charles, aged 30. 
Adored husband of Jane (nee ' 
Crockert. Son of Tony • 
of Julia and brother 
of Caroline. Alistair and 1 
Isabel Dufneid. s»ny Cocks 1 
and Jennifer Pouchard. very ; 
much loved. TbanugivMB 
service at Buxton Church 
CNorftok) at 12 mid-day on 
Sgurtav February 3rd 
1990. followed tw private 
burial at Lamas (Norfolk). 
Family flowers only. 
Donations, tf desired, to, 
Buxmo Church P.C.C. 4 
FAITHFUL!. » On January 
30th. Betty (nte Humohery) 
aoxi 83. Service at Mortiake 
Crematorium on Friday 
Februa ry 2nd « 4.30 pm. 
•BUFFW - On January 29th. 
Jonathan. poet 1906-1990. 
Requiem St Mary the Virgin. 
Bdurne Street SWl. 
February 7th at 030 pm. No 
flowers, donations to Work! 
wadlife Fund. 

GURNEY - On January 30th 
1990. peacefully. Elizabeth, 
widow of Hugo. Funeral 
Service at Tarrant Keynwon. 
Dorset on Monday February 
6 th at 11.30 am- 

MAMLTON OF MLZELL-On 

January 3lst 199 a John 
tTHenln Hamilton. 3rd Baron 
Hamilton of Dalzell GCVO. 
MC. beloved husband of 
Rosemary. Private 

cremation. No Memorial 
Service. Please, no letters at 
his own request 

■AHOY - On January SOth. 
peacefully at home at 
Wiuington. Cheshire. John 
Brown O.BE-. aged 61 
years, beloved husband of 
J1IL father Of janeL s««m 
DavkL Michael and Charles 
and grandfather of Patricia. 
Edward, wuuam. Kathryn 
and Ftona. Funeral Service’ 
to take place at Detamere 
Parish Qiurcta on Tuesday 
February 6 d> al 11 am. 
followed by interment al 
Detamere. Family flowers 
only please, but donations If 
desired lo St Luke's Hospice. 
Cheshire- Enquiries lo‘ 
George LightrooL Witten 
Mews. North wich. austere, 
lek <0606) 42011. 

H ER BERT - On January 29th. 
Elizabeth Florence. 

peacefully at Ashunt Park 
Nursbifl Home, aged 95. 
Much loved mother of 
Nancy, grandm ot her and 
great- 9 -and mother. Service 
al the Kent & Sussex 
Oemnoriuni. Tunbridge 
Wens, at 2.30 pm on Friday 
February 9th. Dona Horn lo 
Action ter Dysphasic Adults. 
Canterbury House. Royal 
StreeL London-SE 1 . 

MBLLYER - On January 31st 
1990. peacefully to hoopla! 
after a short ll loess, in her 

- 9&h year. Margaret <nee 
Setter), widow of Stanley 

. Gordon HJDyer ORE. 
Beloved mother. 

- grandmother and great- 
grandmother. Qmadoa 
private. FamHy Doweraonly. 
but dooaUotis tf.desired to 
The Bade Society. Thanks-- 
giving Service In the Spring. 

HOLE - On January 30th. 

> peacefully to hospital after a 
painful Illness bravely borne. 
Sheila Mary.^-dearly, loved- 
• wife of Jimmy, mother of 
Brace and sister of Margot 
Wellington. Funeral, at 
- - Cavenham Crematorium.. 
Wednesday February 7th A 
1,30 pm- Family (lowers 

- only, donations If desired to 
Cancer Reseacb. 

KNEEBOKE - On January 
30th 1990. Peter Jack 
Georges, aged 66 . peacefully 
A home after a long illness 
fought with great courage. 
Much loved husband of 
Francota JoUant-Kneebone. 
father of Anna. .Jonathan. 
SopMe. Lucy and CMoe and 
for mer h usband of Cate. 
UEB5TER - On January 31st 
1990. to Ms 89th year. 
Harold* Vivian. Beloved 
husband of Olga- deeply 
mourned by Leonie and 
Victor. grandchildren 

Jonathan. Alexis. Sherry. 
Mark and great granddaugh¬ 
ter MkhaL Funeral 2.30 pm 
Thursday February 1 st A 
Streatham Jewish Cemetery 
A Rowan Road. SW16. 
LITTLEJOHN - On January 
29th, peacefully A home 
after a brave fight. Cartuyn 
Ann <nfe O'Brienl, loved 
wife of Mark and mother of 
James. Funeral Service at 1 
pm on Tuesday February fab 
at Chelsea Old Church. 4 Old 
Church Street. Chelsea. 
Donations If desjred to 
Trinity Hospice. 30 Clapham 
Common Norlhside. London 
SW4. 


LLOYD - On January 29th. at 
The Royal Surrey County 
Hospital. Dorothy Mary, 
aged 77. Greater kwM W 
Ted. Andrew and Anna and 
by her many close friends. 
Funeral Service on Tuesday 
February 6U» in St James 
Church. Shere A I pm. 
Donations if desired to The 
British Heart Foundation, 
c/o Pimms Funeral Services. 
Mary Road. Guildford. Id: 
(04831 67394. 

MARRIOTT - On January 
2 SUl suddenly A home A 
Seafora. Sussex. LL CoL 
LW.W, (fim) Marriott Essex 
Regiment retired 

<Pompadours). to Mn MS 
beloved Monica, much loved 
father, grandfather and great 
grandfather. Cremation A 
Downs Crematorium. 

Brighton. February 14 Ui A 3 
pm. Ftowem. brogues please 
to Wagstaff. 227 South Coast 
Road. peaeehaven. 

subsequently donated 

flowers to Alt Saints 
Hospital. Eastbourne. 

MARSH - On January 30th. 
Peacefully in her sleep A 
home to Hampstead. Ella 

Marsh, aged 96. wue of Uie 

tale Rented Marsh. Funeral 
M Goklere Green 
Crematorium 10 am 
Sat urda y February 3rd. 
MATHER - On January 27lh 
1990. Guy Aubrey, son of 
Dr. and Mm j S. Mather and 
brother to James and Kate or 

Cdgbaston. Birmingham- So 
deeply loved and always so 
brave Service A Ombersley 
Church on Thursday 
February 8 U 1 A 11 am. 
Memorial Service In Trinity 
College Chapel. Cambridge 
on Saturday March tom. 
Enquiries to A.B. Taylor 
Funeral Services Ltd.. 49 
Wolverhampton Road south. 
Birmingham. B32 2AY. tel: 
021-420 3666. 

McMURRAY - On January 
28th. Brian. Priest beloved 
son of Harold and Betty- 
RIP. Requiem Mass ai 
Borden Parish Church on 
Tuesday February 6U> al 

12.30 pm. followed by 
cremation. Family flowers 
only, but donations If desired 
lo Father Brian Memorial 
Fund, c/o R. High & Sons 
Ltd.. 1 Bayford Road. 
Slttingbonme. Kent tel: 
10795) 472958. 

MOORMAN - On January 30)h 
1990. at Ashley House. 
Cirencester. Glos~ Theodora 
Mary Moorman M.B.E.. aged 
82 years, an artist and 
weaver formerly of 
Patoswlck. Cremation 
private. A Service of 
Thanksgiving will be held al 

11.30 am on Wednesday 
February 7th A St Mary's 
Church. Patoswlck. Family 
flowers onty by request, but 
donations may be made lo 
Help the Aged, c/o Burdock I 
& Son Funeral Directors. 
New StreeL Patoswlck. Gtos. 

WARREN - On January 28th. 
peacefully in Chalfonu and 
Gerrards Cross Hospital. 
Gwendolen, beloved wife of 
the tale John Frederick 
Warren and dear sister of 
Madge and Leslie Ooomer of 
Gerrards Cross. Funeral 
Service on Tuesday 
February 6th at St James' 
Church. Fulmer at 2.15 pm. 
followed by committal al 
ChUtems Crematorium. 
Amcrsham at 3 pm. Family' 
flowers only please, but 
donations If desired 10 the 
NAP.C.C, 67 Saffron HUL 
London EC1N BRS. 
.WEDDERBURN-OG1LVY • On 
January 51st 199a in 
Reading. Myra Ooy) Carolyn 
Henrietta, late of Bosham 
Hoe. Sussex, wife of the late 
. Donald Stephen 

Wedderbum-Ogllvy. Funeral 
Service at Basham Church 
on Tuesday February 6 Q 1 at 
2 pm. Flowers or donations 
to RJ4J-L to A.B. Walker A 
Son Ltd- 36 Eldon Road. 
Reading. RGl 4DL. 

WITHERS - On January 28th 
1990. after a short illness in 
Coventry. Edward 

Raymond, aged 79 years, of 
Cuherstone. Bovey Tracey. 
The Funeral Service will 
• lake place at Bovev Tracey 
Methodist Church on 
Tuesday February 6th A 5 
pm. followed by Interment to 
Bovey Tracey Cemetery. 
Flowers may be sent to 
Coo robes & Sons. 73 Fore 
StreeL Bovey Tracey. 
Devon. Enquiries: <0626) 
833409. 


FUNERAL 

arrangements 


SPARKE-DAVKS - Friends 
wishing to attend tee Funeral 
Service for Edward tBob» 
Sparke-Davtes are invited 10 
meet A Si Saviour's Parish 
Church. Jersey, on Friday 
February 2nd A 2.30 pm. 
followed by private 
cremation. Cut Dowers K 
desired may be sent to 
Pitcher & Le Quesne Fimeraf 
Directors. 69 Kensington 
Place. SI Heller. Jersey. 


MEMORIAL SERVICES 


APPLEBY - A Service Of 
Thanksgiving for the life of 
Malar General David 
Appleby C8 MC TD will be 
held A the Church of SI 
Sepulchre without Newgate. 
Hoi born Viaduct on 

Thursday March 1A at 5 pm. 


FEB 1 


On this day 


There tons otwwwteraWc concern 
about the number of road c asualties 
in the blackout in the first months of 

the Second World War and a speed 

limit of 20 mph was imposed. Those 
1 oho drove in die limited visibility 
offered by masked headlights at the 
time may wonder tohy anyone would 
want to drive at much over 20 mph 
with pedestrians pottering shout 
nonchalantly ad over the road. 


20 M.P.H. LIMIT 

inblack-out 

new MOTORING 
LAW TO-NIGHT 

POLICE SPEED TRAPS 
An answer to doubts which baVB 


so that the present high total of roed 
fftnnpHaaH mi gh be reduced. He 
contended that the pofice plans were 
based on a reasonable esti m ation of 
the lectors involved. The re was 
nothim; arbitrary about the new law, 
and it had not been thought out by 
officials without experience of driv¬ 
ing cars. It was a practical measure. 

ADVICE TO DRIVERS 
It might be asked bow a driver 
cooid ted when the speed tout was 
hoiwg exceeded. His reply was that 
those who were not sufficiently 


MTU iri"~ mm* — ““ u -- 

to be able to drive within the new 
Kmit should practise during the day. 
If, then, they were physically in¬ 
capable of driving at 20 m-P-h- they 
were not qualified to drive at night, 
and should leave their cars in the 
garage. There was another way m 
which a driver at night could find out 
whether he was exceeding the speed 
limit. He could flick on h» dashboard 
*■ 1 ■ x----J and imlnM lirilt 


morcuw - 1 —- 

es an hour in buBt-up areas 
the black-out, which comes 
iree to-night^. was &*"*£*' 
when Mr. it Alker Tnpp, 

n t commissioner at Srothwd 

1 charge of traffic, drta3ed the 

ST made to deal with 

rarpp said it had been 
sriameatsinthehlMtout^ 
smart of the new-speed taut 
not be difBcu^ ^^ 
iery for dealing 

^former limit would be used 
9 extent. There wouMbe police 
in cars with spe«kw*tara 

lv get, and foot potoe woidd 

u -8 over a measured dte tance- 
mem known as trappmg--at 

^b. Policemen woulduse 

^^bich they would wave 

The office* would 


was so ongra buk 1 * uueu»»“ 
the lighting regulations, or made the 
driver temporarily bfind, nothing 
would be done by the police. 

Drivers should not attemp t^ to 
overtake other vehicles. In the firrt 
daysofthe 30 in**, speedhmit, said 
Mr Tripp, he noticed driving 

was extraordinanly crenfortaWe. 
Traffic moved uniformly, and that 
uniformity of movement helped one 

to comply with the speed fimiL The 

police were retying on the w3hng 
compliance of the public, and be felt 
they would not he disappointed, for 

the great majority of the pubhc was 

convinced of the dangers m the 
black-out 

There were probably some peopis 
who would take liberties, but the 
police would see that they were 
S,^.i rod. Ofienders against the new 
limit would be gonged and where 


girth and Death 
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telephone 

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following day please 
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On Thursday evening ihe isl of February 1990Helena 
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BOOKS 


Victoria Glendimung on private writing of a butterfly of literature and a literato of butterflies 


VLADIMIR NABOKOV 
Selected Letters, 
1940-1977 

Edited by Dmitri Nabokov 
and Matthew J. Broccoli 

WddenfeldA Nicolson, £29.95 


I want to draw your atten¬ 
tion to the feet that my 
book is a lasting contribu¬ 
tion to American lit¬ 
erature,” Nabokov wrote to 
a publisher about Bend 
Sister. Nabokov suffered, but not 

from selfdoubt. 

These letters are chosen from 
the vast archive in Montreux, to 
illuminate bis professional life as 
an author after his emigration to 
America, and are mostly ad¬ 
dressed to publishers, editors, 
academics, and other literati. 
Many of them are written by, or 
dictated to, his wife Vera and 
signed by her; she was always 
about her master’s business. Some 
of his letters to his family (very 
loving and tender), funny letters, 
letters about his work on butter¬ 
flies, and letters illustrating his 
personal philosophy (“Writers 
have no social responsibility”) axe 
included, to provide context 

“1 have never been able to push 

my books — even gently,” he told 
an editor in 1941. He leart fast 
44 What are you doing in the way of 
publicity? When are you sending 
out that announcement?” he 
asked Harpers, about to publish 
Speak, Memory. “Have you tried 
to get any of the so-called ‘book 
clubs’ interested... T He was, as 
he put it, royally indifferent to 
“nincompoop reviews”, believing 
the only thing that helped a book 
commercially was “a sustained 
advertising campaign, lots of ads 
everywhere”. He harried his 
publishers until begot them. (How 
meek most authors ate, in 
comparison.) “After all, literature 
is not only fun, it is also business.” 

He was equally tough about the 
way his books looked. He told 
George Wtidenfeld that the pro¬ 
posed jacket for Laughter in the 
Dark was “atrocious, disgusting”, 
and the cover for the paperback of 
The Defence “meaningless and 
repulsive”. Precision was his ma¬ 
nia. He would give only written 
answers to interviewers’ ques¬ 
tions, because he thought his own 
speaking style was so slipshod, fife 
would not have his book reviews 
touched — “botched and butch¬ 
ered” — by literary editors. 
Surprisingly he quite liked being 
photographed, and gaily suggested 
to Life, in connection with a piece 
about butterflies, that “some fas¬ 
cinating photos might also be 
taken of me, a burly but agile man, 
stalking a rarity or sweeping it into 
my net from a flowerhead, or 
capturing it in mid-air”. 

He was more agile, better read, 
and simply cleverer, than his 
editors and publishers, whom he 
chided for not perceiving the 
coded jokes, acrostics, puns, and 
anagrams which he wove into his 
prose. He also mocked those 
critics — the “aha! criticules” — 
who spotted symbols and ref¬ 
erences which were not, in his 




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opinion, there at afl. You couldn’t 
win, with Nabokov. 

He was feverishly per fectionist 
about the translations of his 
Russian books into English, and 
his En gligh-fo n pifly books into 
other languages, controlling the 
whole process and dieciting every 
page. Hisson Dmitri, who co-edits 
this volume, was the only trans¬ 
lator he really trusted. He 
wouldn't have women translators 
(“I am frankly homosexual on the 


sutgect of translators”) and 
riarTiTwt Constance Gametfs 
rendering of Gogol as “dry shit”. 

This book rndnifes pifg^ and 
pages of listed corrections to 
translations, proofs, editorial 
suggestions, and fais Own ori ginal 
texts—something to marvd at, for 
non-specialists, rather than to 
read. Sometimes he slipped up 
hrmylf, or rather “Father erred” 
as his son puts it. But style and 
substance undergo “a horrible and 


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O vid is the performing flea 
of L a t in poetry and no 
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jump so high or draw such gilded 
coaches; but Melville has worked 
a miracle. It is difficult to imagine 
that there will ever be an English 
version so faithful to the Latin, 
and written in such sound and 

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Melville insists on rhyme, 
believing that the brilliance of 
Ovid’s verse cannot be re¬ 
produced without it; but he a voids 
the todium of an uiwnixcd diet of 
rhyming couplets by using a 
variety of metres, notably a 
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takes delight 
And you to warm another's 
breast wiB snuggle 
While round your neck ms 
arm at win he throws. 
No wonder that for fair 
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When wine went round, the 
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You would not know it from the 
title page, but the introduction 
explains that when we leave the 
Amoves and come to the An 
Amatoria, we are reading not 
Melville's translation, but his 
mrM^r r rtTa*inn of thf dazzling 
1935 version by B. P. Moore. For 
example, when ladies go to the 
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"They come to look and to be 
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But the translator cant win. There 
is again in supp l eness a nd variety, 
but it does not compensate for the 
loss of the Ovidian glitter. 

Another difficulty for the trans¬ 
lator is the level of Ovid’s lan¬ 
guage. It is so plain, natural, and 
easy. When hewas young he found 
it difficult to write prose bat the 
poetry flowed - et quod 
temptabam scribere, versus eraL 
There are moments when this 
translation sounds a little dated. 
This would never have done for 
Ovid, who was above all a creature 
of his age 


D elicious. And yet And yet 
Although it has all the 
“snap and tang” of the 
Ovidian elegiac, the fixed rhyme 
and the fixed number of syllables 
make it just that Utdc bit less 
geniaL It cloys quicker. Rhyme is 
tremendous fun in Byron and 
Gilbert- It can’t be much fun for a 
faithful translator. 

These are astonishing poems, 
and Melville (and Moore) have 
■wo r ked w o n ders with them, an the 
more so since Melville finds 
Ovid's attitude to women offen¬ 
sive, and the poems heartless. But 
surely Ovid is at play, and the 
elegiac lover and the elegiac 
mistress are pawns in his game. 
The man himself is generous, 
joyous, warm-hearted, right- 
minded, sunny-na tuird. The 
worid he creates n a fantasy world, 
like Mr Wodebouse’s, and like Mr 

Wodehonse's “it will never 
stale... but w£D continue to 
release future generations from 
capti vi ty that may be mote irk¬ 
some tlfan our own”. To condemn 
Ovid’s attitude to women is like 
condemning Wodebouse's atti¬ 
tude to aunts. 


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The good old days indeed! I am, 
thanks be. 

This age's child: it's just the age 
forme. 

P e rhaps , after all, the answer is to 
drop rhyme and find a scholar 
poet. Gay Lee in 1958 was Amber 
front the Latin but closer to the 
Ovidian esprit 

Your husband* Going to the 

same dinner as us? 

I hope it chokes him ... 

You'll lie there snuggling up to 
hun?He'Bpw his arm 
round your neck whenever he 
wanM? 


H e was engaged, in 
November 1951, 
“in the com¬ 
position of a novel, 
which deals with 
the problems of a 
very moral middle-aged gentle¬ 
man who fe% very immorally in 
love with his stepdaughter, a girl 
of thirteen”. Hie rest is history, 
ie. Lolita. The long middle sec¬ 
tion ■ of this volume consists of 
c o rrespondence about the diffi¬ 
culties surrounding the publica¬ 
tion of what he called his 
“enormous, mysterious, heart¬ 
breaking novel". He knew there 
would be trouble. “This great and 
only thing has had no precedent in 
literature.” But Lolita was not 
pornographic The tragic and the 
obscene exdude each other.” 
Nabokov had in fact a con¬ 
noisseur’s appreciation of foe 
rude, and he liked Playboy. 

The notes provided are spare to 
the point of p * idP OSknBo tw. 
Correspondents are identified, but 
many little mysteries remain: “I 
hope Arthur Mizener did not 
realty mean what the New York 
Post made him say.” Or, “I also 
enjoyed the marvellous Duchess 
of Windsor and foe Porcelain 
Pug.” Nabokov’s widow and son 
are fiercely p ro te ct iv e and reticent 
in foe aftermath of Andrew Field's 
biography, which was deeply re¬ 
sented. The footnotes document 
Field’s alleged villainy, and leave 
us in the dark over much else. 

But every now and then, in this 
austere volume, the man’s special 
charm is revealed — as in the 
discreet couplet be addressed to 
Dmitri in Italy when worried, as 
Dmitri explains in a footnote, 
about foe possible consequence of 
his son’s amorous adventures: 

In Italy, for his own good, 

A wo{f "luff wear a Riding 
Hood. 


bleeding distortion when trans¬ 
lated imp another tongue”, Nabo¬ 
kov wrote. He Hinwrff suffered 
agony, switching from Russian to 
Engfish in the 1940s. 

Ulysses might be “by far the 
g reatest English (sic) novel of this 
century”, hut in genoal Nabokov 
could not tolerate rivals near the 
throne. T. S. Eliot and Thomas 
Maim were “big fakes”, Pound 
“disgusting and entirely second- 
rate”, Saul Bellow “a miserable 


L ike the biblical prophets, 
Amos Oz pulls no punches 
in his desire to describe the 
despe ra te moral situation in which 
Israel finds itself The dilemma 
underlying this sequence of arti¬ 
cles by Israel’s leading author and 
radical is that because of its 
genesis and subsequent history, 
Israel has developed an unreason¬ 
able obsession with defence. It has 
become a modem Sparta, a pha¬ 
lanx with its spears pointing 
outwards, and inwards too. 

This defensiveness and in¬ 
flexibility, Oz argues, paradoxi¬ 
cally weakens Israel, as its citizens 
win become reluctant to defend 
the untenable position of retaining 
territories captured in 1967. It will 
have difficulty maintaining nat¬ 
ional cohesion, as the idea of a 
unified state becomes attenuated 
through internal conflict. Only 
territorial concessions win both 
ensure Israel's future prosperity 
and restore its collective moral 
fibre. 

AH writers on Israel face the task 
of defining the Holocaust, and hs 
re l ev an ce to the origins of the 
Jewish state. Thousands of 
explanations have been proposed 
about the effect that genocide had 
on the Jewish psyche. Oz suggests 
a theory in order to explain foe 
protectiveness which, he feels, 
holds Israel in a state of stagna¬ 
tion, and achieves a cu nn ing 
insight in doing so: foe essence of 
the evil was the imaginative use of 
deception. This idea is contained 
in Claude Lananann’s film 
Shook, which Oz discusse s in a 
grotty of articles, seeking to show 
that the evil genius behind the 
final solution was to hide from foe 
victims any knowledge of foeir 
ultimate fate, by masking it with 
elaborate deceptions. The masters 
of the Holocaust carefully main- 
tamed this mam delusion, by 
insisting that everything be 
couched in foe language of face¬ 
less, grey bureaucracy. 




A la recherche 
des 

Sixties perdus 


mediocrity”. He could praise too 
— he spotted the quality of 
Edmund White from his first 
novel — but hi$ talent was for 
fulmination. It was a spill-over 
from ins own passion to excel and 
his belief in his own work. His 
commitment is breathtaking. 

He wrote his novels in pencil 
entirely on 4 x 6 index cuds — 
1075 of them for Pale Fire — and 
could only work “in an almost 
FTOostum silence”. He avoided 
, the public aspect of authorship 
(“Socially, I am a cripple”), 
declining honorary degrees, con¬ 
ferences, and all pubbe debate. He 
sent an icy reply tx> The New York 
Times Book Review, refusing to 
write an open letter to Sohzbe- 
nitsyn when be first arrived in foe 
West, without divulging foal be 
bad already written him a private 
letter of welcome. 


T he contrast between distor¬ 
tion and eventual reality, 
and the power that decep¬ 
tion b ring s to those clever enough 
to use it, are skilfully described, in 
a disembodied voice that ex¬ 
presses foe futility of even trying 
to translate foe Holocaust into foe 
inpf of reality. Oz succeeds, 
ho w ever, in suggesting something 
of the kind of imagination used to 
achieve such deception. 

It is against such imaginations 
ever succeeding again that many 
Israelis are anxious, even neurotic, 
to build defences. Oz argues that 
territorial concessions do not 
mean exposing Israel to foe same 
risk of deception, and foal such 
defences are useless against distur¬ 
bances within foe occupied terri- 


I n Ian Ross's Racking the Boat, 
foe world is a strangely hos¬ 
pitable place. The sun shines, 
landladies smile, and foe King’s 
Road is a surging sea of models 
and laughing hairdressers. The life 
of Fan! Shaw, 19 years old and 
entrepreneur, is like listening to 
CEfF Richard’s “Summer Holi¬ 
day” over and over again. 

Not that our hero would be 
interested in anything as twee as a 
London Transport Red Rover. 
More his ticket are MGs, pirate 
radio stations, and a glamorous 
socialite called Natasha. In dual 
pursuit of romantic and pecuniary 
success, he jitterbugs from base¬ 
ment nightclubs in Soho to coud- 
try houses in Ireland, all foe while 
caught up in a heady whirl of 
fashion designers, record produc¬ 
ers, and gentlemen of deception. 

If coincidence plays a heavy 
hand in Paul Shaw’s fate, it comes 
in the form of chance meetings 
that for once do not strain 
credulity. The wiy lightness of lan 
Ross’s touch, foe amphetamine 
tumble of events, foe crashing 
torrent of name-drops convince 
that in memory anyway, foe 
Sixties were like that 
“The stars are stagnant to¬ 
night,” whinges foe narrator of 
Paul Quamngton’s Whale Music, 
“The Great and little Bears are 
hibernating, Orion has taken off 
his beh, laid down his sword, he’s 
eating a TV dinner and watching T 
Love Lucy*.” In this book ro¬ 
mance is the victim of attrition; if 
“Summer Holiday” is befog 
played, it’s at 33. 


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foe father he has never met and 
finds, into the bargain, a half- 
brother, a half-sister, and step¬ 
mother. The boy Malachy is an 
outsider in his own family. He is 
drawn to them but excluded, 
fascinated but embarrassed by his 
fascination. 


D esmond Howell, formerly 
of the teen-dream Howell 
Brothers, is junk-foodfog 
his life away in a reclusive, 
stimulant-strewn mansion in LA. 
Disenchanted with tfa industry 
that he believes used his songs, 
took his wife, and destroyed his 
sibling/partner, he now exerts all 
his mngicai gen i”s on creating 
sounds to woo foe whales that 
circle his diff-top refuge. 

The image of this big, blubbery, 
unhappy man, feeding off Bour¬ 
bon, jam-injected pastries, and 
bad memories, is a pitiful one; But 
. any suspicions of his sanity are 
dispelled by the visits of fais 
grasping family, friends, and for¬ 
mer managers (who drop in from 
time to time to feel for cheques 
behind the sofa), and by the 
arrival of & beautiful “alien” from 
the distant planet of “Toronto” 
Gradually he leanis to exorcize foe 
terrors of the past and the horrors 
of the present. 

The erosion of romantic 
expectation is central, too, to 
Carlo Getter's Malachy A Hs 
Family. A young boy from New 
Jersey comes to England to meet 


The unhappiness of three 
generations of women also stains 
the pages of Mary Morris’s The 
Wafting Room. Naomi, who fled 
to America from the pogroms of 
Russia, buried the man of her 
dreams on her wedding day; June, 
her daughter, found her husband 
was tov&scaned by the Second 
World War, and her daughter Zoe 
lost her childhood sweetheart jn 
Vietnam. When Zoe returns to ter 
Midwest hometown to visit her 
brother in foe local mental hos¬ 
pital, the tales of the three women 
are interwoven, creating a bond 
between them that belies their 
a pp ar ent coolness. So strong is the 
bond that, let your attention 
wander just a little, and it becomes 
hard to distinguish between them. 
Even Mary Morris gets them 
muddled. “It was the same house 
Zoe and Cal had put a down 
payment on when they married”, 
she miswrites ai one point, conjur¬ 
ing an incestuous partnering be¬ 
tween father and daughter.' 


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THE SLOPES OF 
LEBANON 

By Amos Oz 
Translated by Mamie 
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by the PLO or by anybody else, 
cannot possibly be a threat to 
Israel, with its vastly superior 
militar y capability. 

The zzngor weakness of this 
daring collection is that it fails to 
address itself directly to those who 
would oppose such theories. Oz 
has no difficulty in exposing the 
crude dogmas of the Right, but he 
relies on unconscious dogmas of 
bis own which his opponents 
would reject immediately. This 
lack of mutual TwnteryfunHing on 
both rides can only add to the 
polarization that already exists in 
Israel society. 


tones. His more subtle conclusion 
is that foe Jewish state has yet to 
come to terms with foe Holocaust, 
the memory of which still shapes 
Israel's policy-making excessively. 

The Slopes of Lebanon is writ¬ 
ten with absolute conviction and 
passion, and the controversial 
ideas are never mere provoca¬ 
tions, but developed, structured 
arguments. The confident 
assertiveness in the ideas will 
convert many, if only by the 
simple deduction upon which Oz’s 
call for territorial concessions 
rests: that a Palestinian state, ruled 


T he depiction of foe zealot 
Michael Sommo in bis lat¬ 
est novel Blade. Bax, a 
quintesscntially regressive fanatic, 
whose whole identity is derived 
from his religiosity, says some¬ 
thing about the fear with which Oz 
views such people; and he clearly 
has little patience for their convic¬ 
tions and attitudes. But they are a 
growing force demographicalty, 
and will have considerable pol¬ 
itical clout in 20 years' time. If his 
ideas are to influence any beyond 
the Progressive Left of foe Labour 
Party mid foe Israeli Writers 
Association, it is to these g ro ups 
that be will have to p re s en t bis 
i d eas, to convince them that no 
other alternative exists. A more 
formidable challenge, involving a 
more intractable set of adversar¬ 
ies, can hardly be imagined. 


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T he women of the dan — bis 
stepmother’s own ghastly 
mother included - form foe 
nub of tiie narrative. Chapters are 
dedicated to their histories and 
childhoods; their every emotional 
nuance is noted. Through their 
relation to each other, a claustro¬ 
phobic picture is drawn of the 
dependencies and destructions of 
family life. Oddly, though, while it 
is a sexual obsession with his half- 
sister that prompts Malachy to 
start his journal in the first place, 
he gradually erases himself from 
the writing. The result is strangely 
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womb has dramatic implications, not 
least for plastic surgery. Liz Gill reports 


me lives of millions. 
. to plastic atxg&y in particular, the 
unborn child may well be Either to the 
man. Expats believe that within a 

few years they will n°t only be aWe to 

correct defects before birth, bat bv 
Mdasandh^the mechanisms of 
foeolliMbngthey will be aide to twin 


adults di sfi g u red by trauma. 4 

: , of this optimism wrings 
J™,™* &>**' by Dr Mfcbael 
Hanson, head of the foetal treatment 
g ogarm ne at the University of 
. C a pwm ia m San Francisco. He has 
performed the only operation so far 
••where the foetus is actually removed 
.. .from the uterus for surgery — either 
partially or wholly - and then 
■ replaced. 

. The defects tackled in this way 
love been of three main 
diaphragmatic hernias, where the 
abdo mi nal contents protrade into the 
chest cavity, preventing lung dev¬ 
elopment; blocked urethras in male 
foetuses, cansing kidney dilation and 
lack ofamniotic fluid, which in tom 
inhibits lung growth; and sacral 
■ tumours at the base of the gp^** 
which, though benign in themselves, 
take so much blood that they «m«. 
cardiac fitfnre 

The defects were discovered by 
routine scans at around 1 6 weeks and 

the operations carried out at between 
22 and 26 weeks, when the foetuses 
were about Sinking and lib in weight 
The hernia problems are the most 
difficult — apart from all the other 
considerations the procedure is tech- 
. mcafly complex, and only one baby 
oat of six has survived. The Madder 
operations have been more successful 
— four out of six babies have 
survived, as have the two who have 
undergone tumour surgery. Without 
surgery, all would have died. 

David Whitby, senior registrar in 

Leeds,^Mt^several monfos^wfth 
Harrison last year and is doe to rettzm 
to California for a further year’s 
research in July. He says: “A lot of 
patients were sent for consideration, 
but the technique could only be nsed 
an a few. You have to assess which 
ones would not survive without it, 
and that within that group yon have 
to find the ones where the abnormal¬ 
ity has not become so great that you 
cannot correct it** 

The operation itself; he says, 
involves opening the uterus “as in a 
Caesarean” and placing foe entire 




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extraordinary benefit to bums vic¬ 
tims and those disfigured in a road 
traffic accident and other traumas, as 
well as children or adults with fecial 
and other abnormalities which need 
plastic surgery. 

Not only is scarring unsightly, it 
can cause physiological problems, 
sometimes restricting the growth of 
surrounding ti«n? or altering func¬ 
tion: a common complication of a 
cleft palate repair, for instance, is that 
scar tissue affects flexibility. 

With congenital defects, the earlier 
they are tackled foe better cleft 
palates are already done within days 
of birth. Being able to operate on a 
foetus, where foe tissues have much 
greater elasticity and this remarkable 
repair mechanism, would further 
increase the chances of normal f u tu re 
growth, Whitby says, and reduce the 
need for a series of operations, as is 
often the case now. 


Lens wearers must 
clean up their act 


Hie ability of contact leases 
to boost the morale of people 
t eased since schooldays 
abort spectacles is almost as 
important as any improved 

advantages is the ova- - 

present threat of corneal infection and ul¬ 
ceration, keratitis. Hitherto patients have bees 
fn ght rfn f if they follow the 
instructions all will be well, and that it is only 
the negligent who softer. A report in False 
magazine has warned that there is an 
organism, acanthamoeha, at large in tap water 
which defies foe usual recommended desiring 
schedule, soaking for two to four hours in 3 per 
cent hydrogen peroxide. 


MEDICAL 

BRIEFING 


Dr Thomas Stuttaford 


Dr Soger Buckley of 
Moorfidds Eye Hospital 

y wiipiniMifh «yvy miglit ant. 

ing in hydrogen peroxide to 
kfll the organism, or boiling 
for *■ boor, but warns 
Stuttalom that this latter action short- 
ens the life of the lenses. Mr 
Ian Macfcie of St George's Hospital suggests 
that if sterile water is not available to dean the 
lens, tap water should be taken from the 
kitchen, which nsnftOy nms off the mains 
rather than from the bathroom. 

Once the water-borne infection has been 
introduced into foe eyes it seems to be 
stimulated by the tears and becomes difficult to 
treat. In the absence of anything better. 
Neomycin remains foe treatment of choke. 


Less cutting 




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Baby face: foetal tissue's healing properties provide dues for wound repair 


foetns, ar/ust foe part to be (derated 
on, outside, on to the mother’s 
abdomen. Hie procedure, which uses 
magnification and mjero-surgery 


because of potential problems with 
temperature and loss of fluid, but foe 
foetus itself does not have to be on a 
siqrport system since it is still drawing 
its oxygen through the umbilical cod. 


P ost-opera tive me dicati on is 
given to prevent premature 
labour, but Harrison’s team 
has not yet been able to 
delay thw longer than 32 
.weeks, at which time foe babies have 
been delivered by Caesarean section. 

“The mother is anaesthetized and 
so foe foetus is anaesthetized throngh 
the placenta. They are closely mon¬ 
itored and there has been nothing to 


they feel any pain,” Whitby 


One of the most fascinating aspects 
of pre-natal surgery is the feet that 
ioetal tissue does not appear to scar, 
and it is this phenomenon that may 
ultimately have the widest implica¬ 
tions for conditions that are not life- 
threatening but are certainly life- 
spoffing. 

“Foetal surgery is attention-grab¬ 
bing because it is so dramatic, but 
what is also vital is that the foetus 
provides us with a model for ideal 
wound rep air. It is as if foe operation 
were invisible,” he says. 

“If we can discover how it works— 
and there seems no reas o n why we 
shouldn’t — we should be able to 
manipulate it or d u p lica te it so that 
we can hdp adult wounds to heal 
without scarring. This would be of 


T he problem is that a defect 
which is ini tiall y small 

causes further distortion as 
it grows. “This is why, for 
instance, there is usually 
some deformity of foe nose with a 
deft lip.” 

Ultrasound techniques are now so 
sophisticated that they can pick op 
even minor problems as early as 12 
weeks’ gestation, provided, says 
Whitby, you know what you are 
looking for. Thus not every baby 
would be routinely scanned for a cleft 
palate, for instance, but those with a 
family history of the problem would 
be scanned. 

Moreover, Whitby says, DNA 
detection techniques are increasing in 
scope all the time; eventually, a 
simple blood test might indicate 
various potential problems. 

The whole field of foetus surgery is 
still in its early stages, and much has 
yet to be resolved, not least of which 
are the implications for the mother. 

“You have, for example, to con¬ 
sider not only the risk of the actual 
operation but also ha future fertility. 
Ordinarily the incision for a Caesar¬ 
ean is made low down, but with these 
operations you must make it into the 
body of the uterus. That then 
becomes a weak spot, and there might 
be a small risk that it might rupture 
during a subsequent pregnancy. “On 
foe otha band, if you are producing a 
perfect baby at birth there must be 
great psychological advantages. Par¬ 
ents are not having to come to terms 
with a deformed baby.” 

The unanswered question, of 
course, is what effect all this may 
have on the developing baby and its 
personality. There is already a 
substantial school of thought which 
says that influences before birth may 
be as powerful as those afterwards. 

“This is what we just don’t know,” 
Whitby says. “There are people who 
say they have memories of life in foe 
womb. But all those who have had 
this operation are still too young for 
us to know.” 


V 

/\ 


Traditional sur¬ 
geons of the 
type depicted in 
Doctor in ike 
House had a 
straightforward 
philosophy: 
“When in doubt, cut it out” 
The huge scars of which they 
were proud were their trade¬ 
mark. Surgery is changing- 
gaflstones and kidney stones 
still have to be removed, but 
the fragmenting power of the 
hihotripter has made the op¬ 
eration a less invasive; oreven 
non-invasive, procedure. In¬ 
flamed appendices can now be 
removed through a laparo¬ 
scope, leaving no more than a 
puncture wound; knees are 
operated on via an 
arthroscope; prostates can be 
shrivelled by a microwave; 
and soon a large percentage of 
hysterectomies will be 
avoided by airing treatment 
which removes the lining of 
the womb rath er than the 
womb itself 

Be a nibbler 

MM Press pictures 
of Alexandra 
Griffiths hap¬ 
pily cradled in 
her mother’s 
arms at St 
- Thomas’s Hos¬ 
pital hours after they had been 
reunited not only strengthens 
the psychiatric view that 
much of the maternal bonding 
takes place during pregnancy 
and at, or immediately after, 
delivery, but also demons¬ 
trates the regard which south 
London motbeis fed for the 
bacpftaL Providing this stan¬ 
dard of service has its diffi¬ 
culties, for Alexandra is only 
one of 3^300 babies delivered 
annually in labour wards de¬ 
signed to cope with 1,500. 

This week; a campaign 


planned long before Alexan¬ 
dra became a household name 
has been launched to raise £3 
million to improve delivery 
and research facilities. The 
fundraising activities organ¬ 
ized by staff and former 
patients include the publica¬ 
tion of a recipe book. One 
forma patient, Deborah Cox, 
with total disregard for medi¬ 
cal teaching, favours a choc¬ 
olate tone dessert made from 
cream, butter, eggs, chocolate, 
instant coffee and brandy; a 
member of staff Dawn 
Mangani, more conscious of 
the Health Education Author¬ 
ity’s advice, has contributed a 
dish of mackerel, spring on¬ 
ions and mixed herbs. 

The book suggests food for 
every hour of the day, which, 
according to Professor David 
Jenkins ofToronto, isjusiasit 
should be. nunailwn research 
has confirmed 1930s studies 
which showed that if people 
‘abandoned the three tradi¬ 
tional meals a day and instead 
ate little and often, up to 17 
times daily, they could con¬ 
tinue to |a b* the same amount 
of calorics but would lose 
weight and have an improved 
blood cholesterol. In Jenkins’s 
subjects, total cholesterol fell 
by an average of 8J pa cent, 
and the dangerous low-density 
cholesterol by 115 pa cent 

Recent editorials in The 
Lancet and the British Medi- 
colJoumalbBLve discussed the 
advantages of becoming a 
nibbler, for although foe Jen¬ 
kins regime of 17 meals a day 
may be impractical, there is 
precedent for the Jenkins case 
from Victorian farmworkers, 
who regularly managed five 
daily. 

The Lancet has used the 
recent research to attack the 
inc reasingly popular habit 
among City commuters of 
eating one huge evening meal 
a day; this results in a low 
blood sugar during the work¬ 
ing day, when they need to be 


at their sharpest, raised 
cholesterol levels, and in¬ 
creased weight. Twenty years 
ago dietitians thought that a 
14st, 6ft City man could losea 
stone in weight in a year if he 
divided his daily calorie in¬ 
take into three equal portions 
rather than taking than all in 
one large meal. 

The British Medical Jour¬ 
nal makes the point that foe 
advice to eat little and often is 
not a licence to have snacks 
between three hearty meals a 
day. Jenkins's subjects took a 
prudent diet. 

• The St Thomas’s Recipe Book 
costs £4.50 (or £5 inc pip) from 
St Thomas’s Baby Fund, 
Department of Gynaecology. 6th 
floor. North Wing. St Thomas’s 
Hospital. London SEI 7EH. 


Private care 

Ministers as 
well as patients 
will welcome 
the reduction in 
the number of 
hysterectomies, 
which have be¬ 
come foe subject of Health 
Secretary Kenneth Clarke's 
latest battle with the British 
Medical Association. The 
BMA feds that it is not right 
that lay administrators should 
be furnished with a list of 
women who have had hyster¬ 
ectomies so that an up-to-date 
record of women still needing 
smears can be prepared. Other 
doctors, conscious that the 
local bureaucracy already han¬ 
dles sensitive information 
about smears, prescriptions, 
pregnancies and even foe pa¬ 
tients’entire case notes, would 
rather direct their fire at foe 
recently publicized ministerial 
concept that all information 
which a doctor acquires when 
dealing with his NHS patients 
becomes the property of the 
bureaucracy, rather than 
attacking a single issue. 



^ I applied to be foe first 
M British astronaut along 
with 13,000 other 
people in mid-sum- 
mer, went through the 
selection procedures and 
ended up in the final four. 
Two are in Moscow now (one 
of whom will presumably be 
the first astronaut) and two of 
ns axe back-ups in the UK. 

The Soviets have many 
years' experience in space, so 
we are learning from them. 
For example, on the endos¬ 
copy test, looking at the 
stomach, 'any duodenitis or 
gastritis, any sign of an ulcer 
or healed ulcer, excludes a 
person. Although it’s only a 
seven-day mission, they don’t 
want it in any way jeopardized 
by one person. 

I’ve been slightly lucky in 
that Tm a navy diva and my 
medical interest has been 
oocaptiioml medicine. To 
maintain my qualification as a 
diva I have to keep a certain 
level of fitness which is tested 
once a year. 1 try to do a little 
exertisc each day — my 
favourite thing is swimming, 
at least twice a week, 60 
lengths of the local pOoL Fm 
fairly lazy and if I could avoid 
doing exercise I would, so I 

find that foe best way for me is 

to run or cycle in mid out of 
work — between tiro and four 
miles every day. My philos- 


Training to be a higher flyer 


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ophy on food is to look at what 

we were desi gned to do before 
we had modem technology. 
We were hunter-scavengers 
and we ate some meat and a 
fair amount of whatever else 
was available. I don’t eat 
much meat, mainly chicken 
and fish, and lots of baked 
beans — a much under-rated 
food. I don’t eat much fruit 
but I drink a lot of juice and 
eat a a lot of vegetables. 1 work 
best with six or seven hours* 

sleep, more than that and I feel 

lethargic foe next day, bat I 
can work (and frequently do) 
all through foe night. I can 
ipainfain concentration for 
that period of time and get a 
job done. ... 

I have experienced a feu* 
amount of stress—I was in the 
Falkland^ in a ship that was 


blown up, which was fairly 
stressful 2fxt*s on a personal 
basis — if someone Iras really 
annoyed me — I resolve to do 
something about _ it 
immediately. My regime 
hasn’t really changed since I 
was selected for foe Juno 
Project. The two people who 
are in the Soviet Union are 
under more rigorous training, 
and they are doing about the 
same level of exercise, so I 
hope rm doing the right thing. 

When we got down to the 
final 15 candidates we did 
tests at Faniborough. In the 
altitude test they sucked the 
air omofa chamber and made 
us play noughts and crosses 
and say die alphabet back¬ 
wards. As foe oxygen content 
goes down, your ability to do 
this decreases and you fed 


intoxicated and light-headed. 
I think most people found the 
motion sickness tests the 
hardest There was one where 
we were zipped up into a black 
plastic bag on wheels and 
trundled backwards and for¬ 
wards on a railway line for 20 
minutes. To me it felt like 
being in the hold of a big ship 
with a storm approaching so it 
didn’t worry me. Hie motion 
sickness test is important 
because in foe first week in 
space about 50 pa cent of 
astronauts are very sick, 
vomiting and disoriented. 
This mission is only a week 
long and they want people to 
perform, intricate experiments 
in that time, so they don’t i 
want them to be sick. 

In the past there have been a 
lot of problems with as¬ 
tronauts returning and having 
out-ofbody and religious 
experiences, and they were 
trying to exclude anybody 
with a tendency to this. This is 
a serious scientific mission | 
with an awful lot of things to ' 
be thought about. There’s also 
going to be a tight schedule of 
experiments and the last thing 
they want is someone gg^ 
going up there and 
saying, “Gosh, how 
nice it is,” and gazing A? 
out of the window. 

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THE TIMES THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1 1990 


• SOM E REVIEWS MAYBE REPRINTED 
FROM YESTERDAY'S IATEK EDITIONS 


THE ARTS 


Lost in 
critical 
circles 


Revision 


Sheridan Morley 


Having spent the last 25 years of 
my life as a drama critic, when sot 
staring at television od tout 
behalf, I anradied last night’s 
Si gnals on Channel 4 with a wuy 
kind of fascination. Discussions 
about the role of the critic are a 
regular part of the job. No 
politician ever gets as exercised 
about the function Of a West¬ 
minster journalist, no stockbroker 
ever frets aboot a City Editor, as 
mach as playwrights, directors 
and actors agw aboot the 
power, responsibilities and tastes 
of a drama critic. 

It was, therefore, intelligent of 
Signals to open with a dressing- 
room MmjogBe by Nicholas 
Craig, tbe mythical actor invented 
by Nigel Planer of Tha Young 
Ones, precisely to pinpoint and 
parody the nearoses of play ere 
when faced with the gap between 
themselves and reality. 

Itwasperimpskssiiidtigentto 
set die rest of the discussion in the 
hothonse atmosphere of the 
Hampstead Theatre, thereby con¬ 
fining modi of it to the specific 
anxieties of North London int¬ 
ellectual theatrical workers. Why 
can these discussions never take 
place in the Palladium or the 
Citizens’in Glasgow? 

True, Joyce McMillan, com¬ 
bining « doable rarity in bring 
both a female reviewer and a 
leading Scots one at that, blasted 
in like a breath of Highland air; 
bat for tbe rest of the debate we 
were treated to the usual ritual 
larch around sexual and racial 
prejudice and whom the critic 
thinks he or rim is employed to 
serve. 

Nobody was ever intelligently 
challenged. Mike Leigh suggested 
that not enough critics knew 
enough of backstage reality, pa¬ 
tently unaware that almost all 
have in their time been «■«>»■> 
student actors or directors or 
indeed professional playwrights. 
Timothy West thoqght most of ns 
bad been aroand too long, without 
ever wondering whether actors 
might have the same problem. 
Vintage dips of rid John Osborne 
tows, or Ken Tynan bickering with 
Harold Hobson, only served as 
reminders of how tittle the debate 
has progressed in 40 years. 

There was a recent storm in a 
teacup over whether the critic 
Frank Rich destroyed David 
Hare’s last play mi Broadway. The 
answer is that any hostile New 
York Times review always de¬ 
stroys a serious play on Broadway, 
for the simple reason tint New 
Yorkers seem incapable of buying 
more than one seriom paper. 

With this affair as its news peg. 
Signals drifted aroand the usual 
arguments over instant journalism 
versus a c ademi c criticism, Tynan 
versus Shaw, good writing versus 
respectful box-office ticket 
salesmanship. But it did not reach 
any conclusions that would not 
have been familiar to both HazUtt 
and Max Beerbohm. 

At the end, it was left to Pam 
Gems to ask simply bow any 
drama critic can ever hope to 
remain sane. The answer is “with 
difficulty”, especially when faced 
with yet another playwright asking 
why critics really believe they are 
there to criticize. 


Yours precisely, Arthur Miller 

^ ANDREW BOURNE 


Heather Neill on the American writer whose play The Price opens in London 
tonight and whose work, old and new, is more popular than ever before 


Ai 


rthur Miller is in town. The 
strong, benign face — once 
affectionately described by the 
actor Bob Peck as looking, 
when jet-lagged, like a tired 
ostrich — stares out from every kmd of 
newspaper. Whatever Douglas Hard is up 
to in the States, some land of artistic 
“special relationship” exists between Brit¬ 
ish theatre and this man, the quintessen¬ 
tial 20th-century American, survivor of 
the Depression, McCarthyism and mar¬ 
riage to Hollywood's Ideal Woman. 

The Arthur Miller Centre was opened 
with 6dat at the University of East Anglia 
some months ago and the plays are being 
revived in theatres from Lancaster to the 
National, from Leicester to the Young Vic, 
where The Price opens tonight. Miller H a * , 
it seems, something to say to us, both in 
person and through his work, which we 
clamour to hear. 

At a press conference at the Young Vic 

last week, he reiterated his most familiar — 
and necessary — caveat without adequate 
subsidy, serious British theatre will die; 
Broadway is an awful warning. Ironically, 
he has helped to put on the map one of the 
most under-funded theatres in London: 
this is the fifth Miller play to be directed by 
David Thacker at the Young Vic. M I like 
small, unsuccessful theatres", be jokes. “I 
like tbe atmosphere here. Actors become 
less playful when there’s a million dollars 
riding on them.** He adds simply: “They 
do my plays well here.” But that laconic 
statement belies the closeness of his 
association with this particular director; a 
man of almost 75 must have good reasons 
for flying the Atlantic to attend rehearsals. 

This is the second time he has come 
over duriqg rehearsals: he was here a year 
ago when Helen Mirren and Bob Feck 
appeared in the premiere ofhis double-bill 
Two-Way Mirror , but his contact with 
Thacker goes back beyond that. News of 
the Young Vic's Crucible reached Miller 
via his agent is 1986. Subsequently, 


Thacker worked, with the author's ap¬ 
proval and support, on “Englishing" his 
version of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People. 
Miller saw that production last year and 
wrote about h enthusiastically. 

The Price is set in the former family 
home of two brothers, Victor, a policeman 
(played here by David Cakier), and Walter 
(Bob Peck), a successful surgeon. Victor 
gave up his ambition to be a doctor in 
order to look after his father following his 
bankruptcy during the Depression; Walter 
escaped to achieve recognition in tbe 
wider world. Yet each has to face hard 
truths about his motives, about the real 
reason for his choice and what that has 
cost him. As Peck puts it: “They must get 
to the marrow of tbe bone of contention 
between them". 

For Peck there are dear personal echoes: 
he happens to have a brother who is a 
policeman and who took most respon¬ 
sibility for caring for their father, while be 
has himself found success in theatre, film 
and television. Miller, he says, presents 
actors with characters so specific and 
recognizable and dialogue so real that 
when things are going well they scarcely 
feel they are acting at alL “When you act in 
Miller you take on a whole culture." 


T 


hacker’s hallmarks as a director 
are respect for the text and an 

emphasis on H uman freling, 

what he has called “emotional 
nakedness". Given the fierce 
passion in bis plays it is not perhaps quite 
so difficult to appreciate Miller’s interest. 
He can supply the answers when Thacker 
requires specific information and he must 
be impressed by the attention to detail. 
“ThePrice seems,” says Thacker, “to have 
been set in 1964 and that crucial con¬ 
versation between the brothers to have 
taken place in 1936." He presented tbe in¬ 
ternal evidence to Miller, who had for¬ 
gotten, but corroborated the suppositions. 

Esther, Victor’s wife, has just been for a 


check-up in the first scene of the play. 
There are references to alcohol, but has she 
another illness? Miller immediately pro¬ 
vided the answer: over-active thyroid. “It 
gives the actress [Marjorie Yates] some¬ 
thing concrete to work with," says 
Thacker. These snippets of information 
were glea ne d from trans-Atlantic tele¬ 
phone conversations. According to Peck, 
the director was on the phone before the 
play was cast. Yet Thacker deprecates the 
idea ofa special relationship, merely using 
the same, easy-so unding formula as Miller 
h i m sd fi “We try to do tbe plays weft.” 

Director and actors testily to Miller’s 
supportiveness, his humour and human¬ 
ity. He hung hade at first last year, but 
soon he was improvising the unheard 
responses to Bob Peck's telephone 
conversations in Some Kind of Love Story. 
His contribution, is chiefly, a$ he puts it 
himself “to give short cuts, to throw a 
light on something that might otherwise be 
murky”. But the way be does that can be 
inspirational. The attitude of tbe cast is 
tittle short of adoring, but more because 
Miller is anxious to demystify than 
because he comes on as the great celebrity. 

After the first morning's rehearsal of 
Miller’s visit, Magorie Yates looked as if 
she had been given the key to her portrayal 
of Victor’s disappointed wife: Esther, she 
had been told, could have been happy 
living on her own. David Calder had 
suddenly seen his character as a radical — 
someone who, affected by the Depression, 
believed that Capitalism was coining to an 
end. “There's a smell of it in the text. But 
it’s so clear now. It saves weeks." 

“This," says Thacker, “is an extraor¬ 
dinary moment in history. People in 
Europeare trying to investigate the past in 
a truthful way, to uncover what is illusory. 
Milter’s work is especially powerful now." 

• The Price; directed by David Thacker. 
prevuMjg firom tonight at the Young Vic. 
London SE1. opens there next Wednesday. 



Arthur Miller: he frequently visits Britain and likes “small, pnsnccessM theatres’* 


Spidery tale which lacks bite 




Benedict Nightingale 


Have 
The Pit 


The black widows scuttling across 
the Pifs muddy floor are human, 
but turn out to have had arach¬ 
noid habits. When their husbands 
had served their purpose, by 
acquiring enough acres to be 
worth inheriting, they promptly 
poisoned them. 

This apparently happened with 
remarkable frequency in rural 
Hungary between 1920 and 1929, 
four years before Have was writ¬ 
ten. For some commentators, it 
was explained by conjugal vi¬ 
olence, for others by an anarchist 
Slant dating from tbe war. For tbe 
communist dramatist Julius 
Hay — then in prison, penning the 
play on lavatory paper — the rea¬ 
son was embodied in his one-word 
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are missed. In spite of tbe occa¬ 
sional piece of rustic flamboyance 
and the unexplained omni- 



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presence of a cackling gipsy girl, 
the cast never quite throw off their 
Eng ti s h ness. Some seem not to 
have been nearer grubby, dan¬ 
gerous Transylvania than South- 
end- Yet somehow Janice Honey- 
man’s production remains lucid, 
brisk, gripping. 

Things begin fake-innocently, 
with the poor policeman Dani 
(John Ramm) dr eaming of marry¬ 
ing his wilting sweetheart Mari 
(Naomi Wirthner). And then, after 
yet another suspicious funeral, the 
revelations proliferate. She is preg¬ 
nant by Dani; then married to a 
rich landowner, and then, armed 
with “white powder” by the local 
midwife, his and his crippled 
daughter’s murderess. Her vorac¬ 
ity increases with her violence. 

Hay’s point is, of course, that 
love, morality, everything, dis¬ 
appears under economic pressure. 
Only possession matters. And 
when their fortunes improve, the 
exploited adopt the ethics they 
know, those of the exploiters. It is 
a familiar analysis, and not always 
put across with great subtlety by 
Hay. The word “have" enters the 
conversation with portentous fre¬ 


quency. There is an enlightened 
priest to wonder where the 
“blame” ties for poverty, and a 
communist family to suggest that 
social change is possible. There is 
also a fatuous police sergeant who 
unconsciously mocks the powerful 
by idolizing them. 

Yet some characterization — a 
flustered, self-pitying doctor, or a 
city sentimentalist patronizingly 
in search of folk culture - is mar¬ 
vellously idiosyncratic. In 1956 
Hay was imprisoned as a dis¬ 
sident, and even in his communist 
days was too quirky to be dis¬ 
missed as a glib didacL 

Supporting per fo rmers — Bob 
Hey land, William Chubb, Re¬ 
becca Saire — come off best But 
Wirthner fails plausibly to make 
her admittedly tricky transitions: 
innocence to hardness to bewild¬ 
erment. And apart from one 
moment, when she literally lets 
down her hair and hatefully 
dances, EsteDe Kohler misses tbe 
wildness and danger of the play’s 
most interesting character, the 
Utiiier-midwife, Kepes. She should 
be the spider queen, magnificent 
and wild — and isn’t 


Relentless romanticism 


Jeremy Kingston 


The Naked 
Haymarket Studio, 
Leicester 


Aftera poor attempt at a Victorias 
whodunit last month, the Studio 
Company find themselves on 
surer ground with an interesting 
Pirandello, written in the same 
year as Enrico IV, and to some 
extent the reverse image of it 
Where the hero of Enrico cannot 
escape from a role he no longer 
wishes to play, the frail victim of 
The Naked cannot find her way 
into the role she longs to play. 

An ugly episode with her mar¬ 
ried employer has left Emilia 
psychologically naked, lying in her 
hospital bed after swallowing poi¬ 
son. Desperate to think of her life 
as containing some scrap of 
romance, she turns a passing affair 
with a naval officer into a doomed 
grand passion. But the story gets 
into tbe papers, her life is saved 
and the men in her past rush 
forward to dispute her account, 
leaving her without a stitch of 
romance to cover her nakedness. 
Like a true Pirandello character, 
she is trapped in the toils of her 

JWKrt 

When Ersitia’s curiously storm- 
tossed manner towards the other 
characters is finally explained, in a 


curtain speech while a second dose 
of poison is conveniently slow to 
take effect, much of what has gone 
before slips into focus. Until then, 
however, Pirandello's method of 
disclosing a story that all lies in the 
post mils for emotional outbursts 
out of synch with what has been 
revealed so far. Hading the tone 
that makes enough sense to get 
along with is not easy, and tbe 
actors who come off best are those 
playing the shallower characters — 
Laurence Kennedy’s flustered of¬ 
ficer and Neal Swetlenham’s com¬ 
placent journo. Until her final 
speech, Valerie Gogan keeps 
Ersilia on too narrow a range of 
victim and martyr, where a more 
vibrant delivery would help us 
forget the hardness of our seats. 

Fcoella Fielding never con¬ 
vinces us fora moment that she is 
gossiping with a neighbour 
through the window, but it is good 
to see her playing the hennaed 
landlady with a restraint that 
keeps the comedy within the needs 
of tbe play. Even the word 
“qualms”, which in other circum¬ 
stances she is quite capable of 
stretching to five syllables, slips 
through at its normal length. 

The decision to run three acts 
without an interval is seriously 
unkind, and Simon Usher’s direc¬ 
tion should look to tbe sunbeams 
that, morning and evening, slant 
through the shutters at the same 
angle 


Joshua Bell is a young American 
vi olinis t who gained some notori¬ 
ety when Decca accompanied his 
first disc with a broadside of 
hagiographic hype remarkable 
even by record company stan¬ 
dards. The classical music world 
still clings to the old-fashioned 
notion that yon do your great 
performances first, and become 
famous later, reverting this proce¬ 
dure has done Bell no favours. 

His performance of Men¬ 
delssohn’s Violin Concerto re¬ 
vealed a promising talent in need 
of polishing. For every technically 

The Sok Trio, now composed of 
JosefSuk, Josef Cochro and Josef 
Hila, make music as if the music 
has never stopped. These are not 
performances taken out of the 
travelling case, pressed and pol¬ 
ished for the occasion: rather, the 
playing seems to grow out of a 
continuum of response and 
recreation constantly being regen¬ 
erated in the players* lives. 

This was pointed at a purely 
chronological level by the first 
piece of the evening: an eiegte 
written by Snk's grandfather and 
namesake. Five minutes of high 
yearning melody, raging at its 
centre and echoing from the 


impressive passage there was a 
bl emish: the whizz through the 
finale was deft and accurate, but 
tbe double-stoppings occasionally 
took us into the realms of the 
oriental modes. His tone has a 
silvery distinction, but sometimes 
his articulation is marred by a 
rather harsh scoop towards the 
right pitch. 

It is, however, his interpretation 
that needs most attention. At 
present his delivery of even the 
sentimental Andante has a cold, 
robotic feeL Note succeeds note, 
but they rarely add up to phrases 
that speak to the heart. 

The Royal Philharmonic, under 
Vladimir Ashkenazy’s direction, 
continues to be a thoroughly 
resilient, if not resident, orchestra. 
Ashkenazy’s sturdy account of 
Beethoven’s overture Leonora No 
3 might have served as an example 
to Joshua Bell of what musical 


Hilary Finch 


SukTrio 
Wigmore Hall 


memory of the composer’s teacher 
and father-in-law, DvorAk, the 
work summoned forth immediate¬ 
ly tbe Trio's distinctive voice: at 
once expansive and densely con¬ 
centrated, sweet yet bitter edged, 
deep and .generous of breadth. 

In Dvorak's F minor PianoTrio, 
tbe details which fuse to articulate 
the group’s full-hearted playing 
began to surface: tbe seemingly 
intuitive timing and placing of 


expression is all about: a pas¬ 
sionately romantic approach to 
dynamics, spoilt only by some 
wobbly ensemble work. 

Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony 
was played even better. Ashken¬ 
azy took a thnllingly full-blooded 
view of a work that sometimes 
seems to embarrass its executants 
with its blatant emotionalism. 

Tbe opening had a marvellously 
melodramatic atmosphere of Do¬ 
stoevsky-like brooding the waltz 
was by turns lithe or bustling; the 
phrasing of the big, sweeping tunes 
was done with a lilting flexibility; 
and the finale crackled with brass 
power. Ashkenazy even managed 
to instil some fresh ideas: no mean 
feat with this tattered old 
warhorse.To the first movement 
he added a few half-pauses that 
seemed to intensify the Slavonic 
weightiness, while in the finale he 
brought unusual emphasis to the 
horns' counter-tunes. 

every portamento , the leaping 
melodies, hard-poshed physically, 
yet never over-stretched musically; 
the sudden moments of under¬ 
statement like Snk’s own reticent 
start of rite slow movement's 
melody. 

After the interval came another 
work of substance, composed, like 
the Dvorak, against a background 
of bereavement and grief. Smet¬ 
ana’s G minor Piano Trio, bora 
from Sole’s own wonderfully soar¬ 
ing and dipping recitative, was to 
give glowing prominence to both 
piano and cello, Hala's luminous 
piano playing led into the final out¬ 
burst of corporate affirmation. 


Falling for the master of charm 


POP 


David Toop 


Barry Manilow 
London Palladium 


Having to retrieve a battery- 
powered flashing red rose from 
under my feet, dropped by the 
lady in seat Qll. was surely tbe 
best possible start to a charity 
conceit given by Barry Manilow. 
Fifteen minutes before the curtain 
was due to rise, the stalls were 
enveloped in feverish excitement 
“I feel ill, I can’t be that close," 
squeaked one fan, moving to¬ 
wards the back of the theatre for 
emotional refuge- Only star-spot¬ 
ting of the “Barbara Windsor, 'oos 
she married to?" variety seemed 
to offer any distraction during 
these final tense moments. 

When Barry appeared, wearing 
a black polo-neck sweater and ted 
jacket there was pandemonium 



Manilow: self-mocking magic 
and the male members of the 
audience looked on glumly. 

Commencing with a John 
F. Kennedy quote, Barry at once 
revealed those aspects of his act 
which drive stem critics to de¬ 
rision and otherwise self-pos¬ 
sessed women to delirium. 
Awkward, vulnerable yet su¬ 
premely relaxed, he appeared to 
sing almost as an afterthought. 
The soft carpet of digital strings 
crept underneath one of his 
charming autobiographical an¬ 


ecdotes and suddenly the band 
was into a number. 

The singing was effortless and 
unexceptional, but that is not the 
point. “Memories" was ap¬ 
proached with a degree of subtlety 
not usually associated with such a 
dreaded song. It was only deliv¬ 
ered as a “belter" when the key 
changed and the militar y snare 
drum entered. 

For rendition of his 1978 hit, 
"Can't Smile Without You", he 
picked Suzanne, a London bank 
employee.^ to come up from the 
stalls and join him on stage. These 
occasions can be distasteful, but 
Manilow coaxed her through the 
song gently and then presented her 
with a signed video of their duet. 

Fans like Suzanne love to hear 
Barry make fun ofhis big nose and 
share his past tribulations. In tbe 
final analysis, Manilow is bard to 
dislike. If there is a lesson in his 
mi for scornful critics it must be 
this: self-mockery has more sexual 
allure than self-promotion. 


Rambert Dance Company proudly 
lists Frederick Ashton as founding 
choreographer, but perhaps the 
company should find a masthead 
place for tbe name of Merer Cun¬ 
ningham too, since he is the role 
model for many of its present 
choreographers. 

Not that any of the new genera¬ 
tion can hope to match the old 
Ster. so it is a pleasure to 
welcome another real Cunningham 
work to the repertoire — Doubles, 
which was premiered at 
Bir mingh a m Rep on Tuesday. 

Created for his own company in 
1984, this is a sequence of dances 
lasting 25 minutes for a total of 
four women and three men. Much 
of the action takes the form of 
is, which are interrupted or 
comtterpointcd part of the time by. 
generally speaking, a couple of 
other dancers. 

The movement involves, for the 


DANCE 


John Percival 


Doubles 

Birmingham Repertory 

women, repeated and sustained 
balances on one leg while the other 
leg projects in different directions 
and at varied angles. These are 
often accompanied by crisp ges¬ 
tures with the bands. For the men, 
meanwhile, there are frequent 
circling jumps. 

Because the choreography is 
uncluttered and precise, it calls for 
dancing of great accuracy. This it 
gets from a cast with no weak 
links, although three of the danc¬ 
ers especially stand out — Amanda 
Britton for the forceful simplicity 
of her opening solo, Lacy Bethnne 


for the calm assurance she brings 
to a later sequence, and Steven 
Brett for the quiet strength of his 
movement. 

The accompaniment is a tape by 
one of Cunningham's regular 
collaborators, Takehisa Kosngi 
consisting of squeaks arranged 
with rhythmic complexity and 
varied sonorities so that they 
sound like a machine trying to 
produce birdsong. It hardly sounds 
attractive, but Is compulsive in its 
invention. 

Mark Lancaster's design is 
reticent almost to the point of 
unnoticeabUity: a plain red 
backcloth, and track-suit trousers 
worn over half-sleeved leotards in 
a subtle combination of coloars. 
The dancers look good in them, 
and in the piece. There are Anther 
performances this month at Mold 
*nd "York and next month at 
Sadler’s Wells. 












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THE TIMES THURSDAY FEBRUARY I 1990 


19 


THE ARTS/FILM 


Jjavid Robinson reviews the Chet Baker biopic Let's Get Lost , Sur, Far North and Lockup, and previews a season of pre-Revolutionary Russian films 


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Till he blew himself away 


i te few minutes of 

Brae Weber's Let’s Get 
Lost (15, Metro) are not 
cncoaragmg. The <fis- 

- ^ - located images, frantic 
=• cOTKca movement, grainy black 

muges and tkSxml 

■' ownposdHms promise g 

ffltt ~ and Weber 
‘ ^ * WOEW - c,ass lAotog- 

b «°®« 

■ thcs ® fragments are 

•" dements m a collage, wfwip. 
^ becomes ctej^thefita 
g^ ^. Wie 11 die last piece 
is m feet one of these first 

- i faxnZm s ima ges) finally &Us into 

ptoeetftete is the intense safisfac- 
. two of filling the last hole in a 
jigsaw puzzle. We have our com- 
ntetc picture whkfi is a portrait in 
M* the jazz trumpeter Chet 


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Baker was bom in Oklahoma in 
1 929, jaaght himself trumpet (he 
never learned to read music) **yj 
ai l\, alter getting himself dis¬ 
charged from the army on psycho- 
, totpttl grounds, was playing with 
top jazz musicians such as Charlie 
Father and Gerry Mulligan. 

He was dazaiin^y handsome, in 
- die short-haired, baby-faced style 
of the Fifties. His looks and the 
_ dctJp/dark eyes, expressing both 
hnrtand burning sincerity, 
him anatural romanticidol for the 
Junes Dean era. Apart from his 
trumpet, he had a soft, seductive 
smgirigvoice. He wasfeatnred in a 
few films; an awful sex-drugs-ond- 
mustc melodr ama, All The Fine 
Knmgr Cannibals, was partly 
based on his life; and he had a 
brief acting career in Italian film s 
lit. later life he was ravaged by 
drugs; and in the late Sixties his 
musical career was interrupted 
when- be lost all his teeth in a 
hrgwL He was eventually able to 
perform again; but died mysteri¬ 
ously in 1987, falling from the 
window of a hotel room in 
Amsterdam. My colleague Clive 
Davis, elsewhere on this page, 
traces the story from the jazz- 
writer’s viewpoint 
. Bruce Weber became fas¬ 
cinated-as most people who 
knew Baker were — during the last 
year of the musician’s life. Baker’s 


unpredictable habits madr shoot¬ 
ing difficult; but Weber followed 
him doggedly, filming his last 
recorded sessions and constant 
interviews. Baker’s face is ruinous. 
With sunken cheeks and deep 
mnow 5 and he moves and 
as if in a trance, slowly and 

Painfully groping for thoughts and 

words. 

Somehow his musical gift has 
survived, more or less intact; and 
the deep eyes still protest sincer¬ 
ity — quite mendaciously, as we 
gradually discover. He tells, with 
feelnig, the story of losing his 
teeth; moments later, one of his 
mistresses wares us that his 
version, like much else, is likely to 
be quite untrue. 

W e meet one of his 
three wives, several 
of his mistresses, 
and his mother. All 
remain reluctantly 
under the speD of his c h ar m, even 
while they recall the desertions, 
infidelities, disloyalty, ruthless 
manipulation anA even brutality. 

Weber has caught some extraor¬ 
dinary revelations: Baker’s des¬ 
perate effort to dredge up from his 
fogged mind some knowledge of 
his own children; the moment 
when his mistress discovers that 
the gift from Raker that she has 
most treasured — the film rights 
in his life — has been prodigally 
given to Weber as welL There is a 
more disquieting episode when 
Baker’s widow begs Weber not to 
use her unguarded comment on a 
mistress: he has done so just the 
same. 

Even as Weber’s film strips bare 
the pitifully frail and destructive 
personality of this gifted man, the 
spectator’s sympathy for him 
grows, against all probability. The 
fragmented but dramatic nar¬ 
rative of this skilfully structured 
documentary recalls flint East- 
wood’s dramatized biography of 
Baker's one-time colleague Char¬ 
lie Parker, Bird. There is an odd 
link: when Parker died at 35 die 
doctors guessed bis age as 60, 
when Baker died at 58 the Dutch 
police described him, despite his 
reined fece, as “a man of 30, with 
a trumpet”. 


BfUJCE WEBER 



Someone to lean on: Chet Baker enjoying the support of his wife Idtiaae in BraceWeber’s Left Get Lost 


Musical fantasy, an elegy and an exercise in brutality 


A sin Let's Get Lost, collage is 
also the method of Fer¬ 
nando Solanas’s Snr 
(South) (15, Qmnon Premiere), 
which won him the prizMbr best 
direction at the Cannes Festival. 
As a musical-fantasy essay on 
recent Argentinian history, it is a 
sequel to Solanas’s earlier Tangos. 
Tangos dealt with Argentinians in 
exile in France in the Seventies; 
Sur is about the return from 
prison of a victim of the military 
dictatorship. 

Again die musical basis is a 
melancholy, evocative Argentine 
tango, sung breafitOy but con-, 
fidendy by the veteran Roberto 
Goyehoche. The style is all theatric 
cal artifice, with most scenes set in 
night streets, photographed in 
predominant Hue, with drifting 
smoke, and papers — symbolizing 
perhaps the printed detritus of (be 
election that {seceded the fell of 
the Generals — that swirl about 
the feet of the actors. 

The hero has emerged from 


prison, but hesitates to return to 
the wife who was unfaithful during 
his absence. As he wanders the 
night town, he meets people from 
his past, both the firing and the 
ghosts. A lot of the dialogues and 
memories in this overiong, two- 
hour film are likely to be elusive 
for British audiences, but the 
songs and choreography are in¬ 
triguing to watch. There are some 
fine and often comic fantasy set- 
pieces, such as the library where, 
like a litany, civil servants read off 
the titles of books and films while 
a chorus responds with the 
grounds (“Marxist”, “porno¬ 
graphic”, “subvers i v e ”) on which 
the wards of Freud, St Exnp&y 
and Sati nas himself are to be 
forbidden. 

The actor-playwright Sam Shep¬ 
ard wrote Paris, Texas for Wim 
Wenders, and the play Fool for 
Love which Robert Altman 
filmed. But for his own directorial 
debut. Far North (12, Gannon, 
Tottenham Court Road), his 


script is an odd, whimsical and 
quite unconvincing piece of 
Americana. Charles Durning 
(over-playing, unusually) is a 
Minnesota veteran of two wars, 
who is hospitalized by a runaway 
horse, and irrationally vows ven¬ 
geance on the poor ammal. 

Hi« Hifimmd that his favourite, 
town-dweller daughter should 
shoot the horse, & family pet, 
causes crisis in his all-female 
household, consisting of his 
spaced-out wife, country-bred 
daughter, troflopy grand-daughter 
and crotchety mother-in-law who 
unwillingly celebrates her 100th 
birthday while Darning deci d es 
the fate of the horse. The dialogue, 
as might be expected, is bright; 
there are some ambitious devices; 
but the characters go no deeper 
than a series comedy. 

Lock: Up (18, Gannons Hay- 
market, Oxford Street, Chelsea) is 
an almost abstract exercise in 
sadism — abstract in the sense 
that the story that justifies the 


non-stop brutality is almost non¬ 
existent. Sylvester Stallone is (as 
usual) serving time despite his 
unquestionable innocence. He is 
snatched from his prison cell, with 
its Paul Klee posters on the wall, 
to be taken off to a nightmare 
establishment whose warden 
(Donald Sutherland) sets out to 
work off an old grudge, with every 
physical brutality the dull minds 
of the writers can think up. The 
director of this orgy of beating, 
kicking, electrocution, drowning 
and insult was John Flynn. 

Next week the National F3m 
Theatre begins a season of the 
rediscovered films from the last 
years of Imperial Russia, which I 
wrote about on their first appear¬ 
ance at the Pordenone Film Fest¬ 
ival last year. It is a rare chance to 
see films that have been hidden for 
more than 70 years. 

Russian cinema audiences, un¬ 
like those in English-speaking 
countries at the time, tended to be 
drawn from the literate bourgeoi¬ 


sie; and the fitm* reflect die tastes 
of an audience in the throes of 
enthusiasm for Symbolist lit¬ 
erature and Art Nouveau. They 
thrilled to tales of mystery and 
occult, of necrophilia and beauti¬ 
ful femmes fatales. 

The film - makers shunned the 
rapid American style of montage, 
and relied rather on sop histicated 
acting and highly developed tech¬ 
niques of lighting and arrange¬ 
ment within the shot The great 
actors of the years before the 1917 
Revolution, such as Ivan 
Mogoukie, Vera KaraOi and Vera 
Kholodnaya^re still mesmeric. 

And the season reveals one 
director of real genius, Evgenii 
Bauer, who would certainly have 
given a quite different direction to 
Soviet dnema ifbehad not died in 
1917. Resurrected at last, Bauer’s 
extraordinary visionary inven¬ 
tion, dramatic drill and psycho¬ 
logical perception add a sig¬ 
nificant new name and a new 
chapter to film history. 


■ ■* 




Geoff Brown 


A vmeMy selection of tons mcanty 
Messed on video. The year niters 
to the deto of first Mease, or in the 
* case or television IBme, of first 
broadcast 

DAD’S ARMY (Parkfidd, U): 

Largely successful dnemaispto>ofl 
from the droll TV series, with lively 
performa nc es from the Home 

Guard troop and adroit period 
atmosphere. 1971. 

THE DEADLY AFFAIR 

s thrSer CaU for the 
Dead expertly filmed against 
deliberately drab London 

backgrounds Iw cfirector Sidney 
Lumet James Mason Is foe 
Foreign Office chap who stumbles 
on a spy ring. 1967. 

DO THE RIGHT THWG (CJC. 1®F 
Softs Lee’s militant entertainment 
about racial tension on a botong 
bm day in Brooklyn -achain of 

Aieflo as the itaftan-Amencan ptaa 

parlour owner marooned m a b»« 

neighbourhood: and Lao himsalt as 
his black delivery boy. 1989. 

N0SFERATU (CBS/Fox, 11 a 
The shadow of Mumau s sBent 


classic hangs heavy over Werner 
Herzog's treatment of the Dracula 
story. Frequently misjudged, but 
the striking moments ultimately 
win, and Klaus Kinski makes a 
memorabiycadaverous blood¬ 
sucker. 1979. 

FELLOTS CASANOVA 
18): 

i but morose treatment of 
the libertine's fife and loves (a 
mechanical doH among them), with 
Donald Sutherland. Not me of 
FeiHni’s more persuasive 
extravaganzas. 1976. 

THE GREEN MAN (Warner. U): 
Delightful farcical former from foe 
Launder-GBfiat team, with George 
Cote as a vacuum-cleaner 
salesman who accidentally thwarts 
AJastair Sim’s assassination plans. 
1956. 

KAGEMUSHA(C6S/Fbx, PG): 
Kurosawa's majestic epic from 
1980, centred on the fate of a tttef 
groomed as the double of a 16th- 
century warlord. OnmhaMng In 
the dnema, though it inevitably 
shrivels on video. 

RAN (CBS/Fox, 15): 

King Lear seen through 
Kurosawa’s visionary eyes, wit h 
Tatsuya NakadaJ as an okJ, fraught 
jdng In a cofeJ, crumbling universe. 
Grantfiose drama with battles, 
apocalyptic sights, and excellent 
musieby Torn Takemrtsu. 1988. 


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riverside studios 


I t is simple enough to learn 
your trade as a novelist or 
playwright: you live, you suck 
the end of your pencil, and you 
write. The difficulty conies in 
surviving financially. But what if 
the goal is to create feature films? 
This involves lights, cameras; 
sound equipment, an editing 
bench, laboratory costs. Unless 
one intends going the avant-garde 
route — making studies in the 
contemplation of one’s navel — it 
also requires co-workers: actors, 
technicians, dapper boys, and all 
the other flora and fauna listed in a 
film’s screed of credits. 

One way to take the plunge 
would be to attend BP Expo 90, an 
eight-day festival sponsored by 
British Petroleum, beginning to¬ 
morrow in London at the River¬ 
side StndiOS, Hammersmi th (box 
office, 01-748 3354). For the 
second year running, the event 
gathers together the cream of 
international student films and 
video. There are trade stands, 
seminars on all aspects of the 
industry, and visits from assorted 
luminaries. Some brave souls will 
be bringing work from their own 
film school days, including Istvan 
Szabo from Hungary, Canada ’ s 
Atom Egoyan, and Shaji Kanm, 
the Indian director of PiravL 
The youngest directors dipping 
into ibdr past are a talented 
Scottish duo from the National 
F2m and Television School: fan 
Sellar, who directed last year’s 
fe tching Venus Peter, and Gxllies 
M acKinno n, whose brilliant first 
feature. Conquest of the North 
Pole, awaits commercial release. 
Both their graduation films deal 
with deaths in the family: student 
film-makers like to demonstrate 
they are serious. Sellar’s Albert’s 
Memorial, made in 1985, is a 
neatly mounted tale of a working- 
class widow coming to terms with 
beradf and her late Albert; though 
it is MacKinnon’s 1986 film 
Passing Glory —a pungent drama 
about the death of a feisty Com¬ 
munist grandmother-that im¬ 
presses most with its confidence 


Geoff Brown advises 
aspiring film-makers 
and anyone who is 
interested in cinema 
to visit Expo 90, a 
festival of student 
films opening in 
London tomorrow 


With hindsight, however, stu¬ 
dent films can only give a mixed 
indication of achievements to 
come. Szabo’s 1961 short Concert 
— in which three lads carry a piano 
around town — intimates a vein of 
lyrical surrealism hardly present 
in Mephisto and the Hite. On the 
other hand, Polanski’s Two Men 
and a Wardrobe (1958) —two 
men carrying a wardrobe around 
town — flung down his credentials 
as a hard-edged absurdist There 
are also early films whose brilliant 
promise led nowhere: where are 
the successors to Philip Trevel¬ 
yan’s haunting study of rural 
eccentricity. The Moon and the 
Sledgehammer, one of the most 
original British films of the early 
19705? 

Exploring first films, it is best to 
tread carefiiUy. There are skel¬ 
etons in closets. No-one, for 
instance, would wish to judge 
Francis Coppola by Tonight for 
Surd, or The Playgirb and the 
Bellboy, or other pornography 
cheerfiilly undertaken while a 
student at the University of South 
Carolina. Fans of Ridley Scott’s 
sleek designer angst might become 
impatient with Boy and Bicycle, a 
half-hour short made in 1965 for 
the British Film Institute’s 
Abduction Board, in which a 
roaming camera follows a boy, 
and his fake, as he plays truant in 
North Shields. 

Yet whatever the achievement, 
directors’ first efforts are always a 


source of fascination. The best 
thing about student film-making is 
that all modes of expression seem 
open; it is only later that expedi¬ 
ency or necessity begin shutting 
doors. In Martin Scorsese's stu¬ 
dent films, made at New York 
University in the mid 1960s, you 
can almost see the young director 
gobbling up film history, fighting 
through a forest of influences — 
from Fellini to foe comedy 
routines of Md Brooks — to forge 
his own personal style. On one 
level. It’s Not Just You, Murray! ~ 
a 15-minute short presenting the 
life and thoughts of Murray, a 
smart, shady ope ra tor inordi¬ 
nately proud of his flashy tie and 
car, would seem to be a plain 
gangster lampoon. But the pulse of 
New York’s mean streets is ever- 
present, paving the way for the 
celebrated films to come. 

Individual talent can flicker 
into life no matter what the 
restrictions. An early Ken Russell 
short like Amelia and the Angel 
(1958) may well have a home¬ 
grown look: no dialogue, natural 
lighting, tracking shots taken with 
a hand-held camera perilously 
clutched from a car or wheelchair. 
Yet from modest resources Rus¬ 
sell carved a curiously touching 
tale about a schoolgirl (played by 
the daughter ofTTraguay’s London 
ambassador) seeking after angel’s 
wings to replace a damaged pair 
needed for a school production. 
Russell’s innate roman ticism and 
talent for choreographing action 
are on copfous display; at the time, 
foe editor of Amateur Movie 
Maker called the film “the nearest 
approach to a masterpiece that 
any amateur has yet made.” 

Who knows, then, what talent 
will be uncovered among the 
student films at Expo 90? No 
doubt there will be more deaths 
and funerals. There may be dour 
accounts of families on the 
breadline; slick genre pieces con¬ 
sciously designed as the director’s 
entire into TV drama; two or three 
people carrying, say, a lamp-post; 
or; with luck, there may be some 
precious, iconoclastic fireworks. 


No exclusive rights 
to drug addiction 

Clive Davis, jazz critic of The Times, on the 
truly tragic story of trumpeter Chet Baker 


C het Baker's place in die 
lira iMBftwB mold 
have bees secured long 
ago if he had had the 
sense to fellow Bix 
Beiderbecke’s «awplf, and die 
before he was 30. As it is, he Bred 
another three decades, long 
enough to see his legend assailed 
by heroin and the changing winds 
of fashion. 

After all his restless wanderings 
around Europe and America, his 
reputation rests mainly on a 
handful of recordings from the 
early Fifties. “His experience,” 
the American critic Nat Hentoff 
once noted, “is that of the young 
novelist who writes one or two 
books that last, and spends the 
rest of Ms career wondering *hy it 
never happened again.’* 

Hentoff was writing ha 1973. By 
that time, Baker had edged back 
towards regular touri ng, his drug 
problem m om e ntari ly kept at bay 
with methadone; At the time of his 
death, be was still playing mask of 
extraordinary beamy. On his last 
visits to Ronnie Scott’s, the sight 
of him perched an a stool, fearing 
an his strength oa a ballad, ms 
almost unbearably poignant. 
When he was on Conn, the sound 
that emerged transcended all his 
physical frafltks. 

Once the epitome of wide-eyed, 
mid-western youth, Chesney 
Baker first attracted attention in 
1952, at the age of 22, when he 
joined Charlie Parker’s band dar¬ 
ing oae of the attobfs visits to Los 
Angeles. The real turning point, 
however , came whe& be linked op 
with the baritone saxophonist 
Gerry MaIHgan, on a series of 
dates at a bar called The Haig. 

like so many jazz mneatnaigg, 
^ birth of ritf famous Baker- 
Maflfgan quartet arose In part 
from pare chance. The Haig's 
owner had pat the venae’s piano in 
storage wide playing host to the 
trio of the vibraphone player Red 
Norm. With no piano to set the 
tonal centre. Mulligan was free to 
develop a contrapuntal style for 
saxophone, trumpet and bass. 
Baker, a technically limited per¬ 
former who played by ear, 
immediately rose to the challenge. 

The groups spare and baoyaHt 
sound helped define what has 
become known as “West Coast 
Jazz”, a reaction against the 
frenetic tempo of New York-based 
bebop. A harnifmg trumpet-led 
version of “My Fumy Valentine” 
brought hngfr commensal success, 
and within a matter of months 
Baker was tempted to embark on a 
solo career, making use of his 
dubious singing voice. EGs early 
albums mere by no means as empty 
as some detractors suggest, but 
they yM<im re-kindled the chem¬ 
istry of the Mulligan quartet 
By the end of the notes he had 
begun the long decline into drug 
addiction, marked by a depressing 
cycle of arrests and Homes of 
inspiration In the stodiot After a 
severe beating by drug dealers 
ruined his embouchure, he was 
forced to stop playing a ltog e ther 
for nearly three yean; scraping a 
living by working at a petrol 
station. 

His commercial appeal always 
made him suspect In some jazz 


quarters. The fact that he was 
originally inspired by the spacious 
trumpet phrasing of MOes Davis 
was also held against him. 

like Dave Brabeek, another 
West Coast star. Baker was 
a ccused of riding to fame on the 
hark eg black mu s ician s. In the 
Fifties, when black artists were 
systematically Ignored by the 
mainstream media, the ch arge 
carried some weight. The passing 
of the years brings some perspec¬ 
tive: Baker’s success was more 
than just a question of good looks 
and good lack. 

The backlash against the whole 
West Coast school — dismissing It 
as a pseudo-classical dflutioa of 
tree jazz —did nothing tor his 
reputation either. Some of the 
music which came oat of Los 
Angeles and San Fmxhco un¬ 
doubtedly sounds effete and 
p ret enti ou s today. At Its best, 
however, the approach did open 


to fuse improvisation and 
composition. 

Brace Weber’s fibn has already 


another study of the jazz junkie, 
one to place alongside BM and 
assorted Hollywood travesties? 
The simple but uncomfortable 
answer is that it is hard to make a 
film about the post-swing era 
without dwelling ou the question of 
addiction (Charlotte Zwerin’s 
documentary on Thelonions 
Monk, Straight No Chaser, is an 
exception). 

In the Forties and Fifties, a 
generation of young mnsiriaBS was 



Near the end: Chet Baker in 1987 

ravaged by drugs. Arduous work¬ 
ing conditions, the “mrtsHer” 
status «f bebop and the creative 
demands on players afl contrib¬ 
uted to the phenomenon. Miles 
Haris’s autobio graphy, dne out 
next month, is a reminder of how 
many substances some musicians 
managed to consume; One of the 
reasons that the MriHgan-Baker 
quartet brake up, in fact, was that 
Mulligan was removed from the 
scene dne to a 99-day sentence for 
possession of narcotics. Baker, 
sadly, was no lose misfit. 


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THE TIMES THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1 1990 

INFORMATION SERVICE 


This selective guide tv entertainment and events throughout 
Britain appears from Monday to Friday, 
followed in die Review section on Saturday by a 
preview of the week ahead. Items should be sent 
to The Times Information Service, POBox7, 1 
Virginia Street, London E19XN 


In speech and song 


BOOKING KEY 


THEATRE 


LONDON 


it BLOOD BROTHERS: WBy Russefl's 
se nt ime ntal muataat separated twins 
destroyed by the Encgtan class system; 
KBd Dee as their mother. 

Albere Theatre, St Martin's Lane, WC2 
101-86711 IS). Tube: Leicester So- Mon- 
Sat 7.45-10.45pm, mats Thurs 3-fipm, 
and Sat 4-7pm. £8*0-£1O5a (DJ 

* HARO TIMES! Dickens’s Cofcetown 
novel effectively adapted by Stephen 
Jeffreys and stand fay Robin Herford 
for die London Shakesssare Group. 
Wmtawe Thn»M%wBfl Rd. 
Croydon (01-680 4060). nain: East 
Croydon (BH). Tuss-Sai tom; mat Sun 
5pm^£4.50-£S^0. fThurabafgain nfgm. 

* A LIFE M THE THEATRE: Denholm 
Bnott and Samuel West in Mamet's 
study of an old actor and Ns ambitious 
Junior, the players spo nge r than die 
P*ay. 

Strand Theatre, AMwvch, WC2 (01-838 
2660). Tube-. Govern Garden. Tues-Sa* 
8pm, mats Thurs. Sat and Sun 4.30pm, 
£9-£16-50. 

•ft LONDON ASSURANCE: Paul 
Eddington en amusing ageing beau, 
with Angela Thome In odienw tta so-so 
production from CNchestar. 

Theatre Royal, Haymarttet SW1 (01-930 
9832). Tube: Pfccadtoy Circus. Mon-Sat 
8-10.1 Opm, mats Thurs 3-5.1 Opm end 
Sat4-6.10pm.BS-El6.TO 

* MA RAMEYS BLACK BOTTOM; 

August Vfltaon's ptay about black 
musicians being ripped off in 1927 
Chicago transfers from the National 
Theatre for a two-week season. 

Ha c ta oy Empire 291 Mare StESjPI- 
985 2424). Train: Hackney Central (BR). 
Tonight and to mo rrow and Feb 59. 
730pm. £7-£l0- 

•it NOEL AW GERTIE: Patricia Hodge 
and Simon CadeD spar, sing end dance 
in Sheridan Morte/s trip down Memory 
Lane. 

Comedy The a tre Pantan a. London 
SW1 (01-930 2578)- Tuba- Pfccadtoy 
Circus. Mon-Fri 8pm, Sat 845pm, mats 
Wed 3pm, Sat 6pm. E530-E16. 

■fr THE PRICE: Wetoome revival of 
Arthur Miner's fine play where two 
brothers discover that dead father's 
character and their own: with Bob Peck. 
David Cakfer and Alan MscNaughtan. 
Young Vic Theatre, 68 The Cut, SE1 
(01-928 6363). Tube: Waterloo. 

Previews from tonight 730pm, opens 
Fhb 7 7pm, then Mon-Sat 7-30pm, mat 
Saf2i0prn,£ia 


4 RACMG DEMON: See picture. 



OUT OF TOWN 



Gats (0533 6397m Mon-Thurs 745pm. 
Friend Sat8pm. £5. 

UVERHXMU * Tens a» Money: 
Ayckbourn's NT version of the AJdwych 
twee in which very oom p te a ted 
problems fbtow a scheme to grab en 
inheritance. 

Playhouse, wnamaonSq (051 709 
6363), Mon-Thura 7-30pm,Fri and Sat 
8pm; mat Sat 4pm, E1-E7.50. 

SHEFFIELD: * Sea Monttsya: New 


Ln a taa a. the ever enterprising, 
never predictable contemporary 
mimk: ensemble, surprises London 
again in its latest mnste-tbeafire 
offering: a dooMe-MD of works by 
Vic Hoyfand awl Msnrioe Ofaana, 
to be presented at tbe Lilian Baytb 
Theatre in itHn^ to¬ 

morrow and Saturday at 7-45pau 
The Hoffaud piece, a timid pre¬ 
miere, n a mofiodrama called La 
Moira, based on Dario Fo’s pfaqr 
The Workers Knows 300 Words, 
The Boss Knows 1000 — That's 
Why He’s The Boss. The matter is 
the Mafia and the hardships of 
S i ci l i an life; the manner is speech 
and song, which enables the mask: 
to inn parallel to die text, reinforc¬ 
ing its own rhythmic intensity. 
Hoyfand wrote the piece for 
Hirst and it is she who takes np 
the monologue of the mother of 
Michele La Lattzone, the woman 
who refives her hnsbantTs death at 
the bands of the Ohm’s 
opera, Trois Comtes de /’Honorable 
Blear, written in 1978 for the 
Avignon Festival, takes Japanese 
legends for its inspiration and Is 
influenced by the composer's own 
wok in mime theatre. Odattne de 
la Maithmz conducts both operas. 
Lffian Baytis Theatre, Sadler's 
Wells, Rosebery A venae, London 
EC1 <01-278 8916), tonight, to¬ 
morrow and Saturday, 7.45pm, 
£4JQ. Hilary flack 


msm&mrn 


Manchester (061 832 6625). doors open 
830pm. £3. 

* STAN TRACEY: MOriR-ilWptred 
oriokirta from the pmy soewt 

fBaturingbasswfloytobb^twt 
The Dorsm Room. 

KinjpwtdRd (0202 68S222). 8pm, £4.75. 
O-KENNV WHEELED Ooring data 

sas^&s&ar 

Jewry SLWWiosW 

(0962843434). 745pm, ES-E8. 



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DANCE 


* PIAft Creation by Alfonso Catt for 
EtaKetduNord from Roubatx. France, 
writi Balanchine's Serenade. 
Dwngna Theatre GuHdhaiRd. 
Nortriam jnOT (0604 24811), 730pm. 


4455), 730pm, 



Dutwtth Barnard Han** conducting a 
resonant Russian cast lad by Sergei 
LaMericus. 

Covert Garden, London WC2 (01-240 
1066), 630-1030pm. E4-E90. 

★ FAUST: Strong revival o( Ian Judge's 
of Gounod's opera for 




London N1 (01 <1593535), Tnurs-Sat 
llam-apm. Sun 11am-7pm. free, umS 
F«)4. 

THE ■ IPP’CH O Ot T GROUP: Works by 
Paolozzi. HamMon and other protpFop 
s^B who hung around 0w ICA in the 

teMlbne of Con ta n mu r a re Arte, The 
Mag London SWl (0V930 3647), dafty 
noon-Bpm, £1, until April 4. 

CONTEMPORARY GRAPMCS: Wbrka 
by Jctm Keane, Bert mm and John 
Loker are included. 


■ Also on national retansn 
a Advance booking posafola 

■ AU REVOm LES ENFANT8 IPG): 
Louis Malta's moving, semi- 




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CONCERTS 


-A MAM.Y STRAtfSS: The walrtfly 
named "Arrogant Genius" series 
devoted to Richard Strauss's music 
resumes with Vtadknk Ashkenazy 
conducting the RPO in the 
RosonkavaHar State, Four Lest Songs 




sequel to the 1986 hit. wrthl^chaeiJ. 
Few and Christopher Lloyd ripping to- 
and-fro through the time spectrum; 
Erected as before by Robert ZemecWs 
(108 min). 


THE DREAM TEAM (13k Madcap, 
occaafonaiiy tasteless, adventures of 
tour mental hospital patients let loose 
on Manhattan. Win Mchae) Keaton and 


-WjmPwg.us.JMS. 

UneFri, Sat 11.15. PtBM (01-200 0200). PrOQS 1245.3.15 


Racing Demon, the new ptay by 
David Hare (above) previewing 
from today (see IistingsX is his 
seventh to be staged at the 
National Theatre — or six and a 
half If yon allow for Howard 
Brentoa’s co-antborship of 
Pronto. Its subject is the Church 
of England, focusing on a sooth 
London parish where the vicar 
(Oliver Ford Davies) is not making 
much sense of his mission. Unlike 
Pronto, perceived as an add 
portrait erf a certain newspaper 
magnate, this ptay is in Hare's 
warmer and more comic manner. 


CASUALTIES OF WAR (18k American 
wrocHto* m Vietnam, viewed whh more 
thought than usual by drector Brian De 
Pabna: with Micnael j Faa n the sokflar 
standing span from the brutal antics ol 
Sean Penn. 

Odeon Kensington (01-802 6644). 

Progs 1240,320.6.00.840. 

Odeon Swiss Cottage (01-722 5905). 
Progs Z10.530.030. 

'Gsr&is?, g^^Kog. 

CAT CHASER (1«fc HigJwiciBnB wslon 

of an Bmore Leonard thriBer.wHh Pater 
Wader as a Ftonda hotaHer sucked kno a 

(33mina), 

Cmn Ftanton SMW1-930 0631). 
Progs 135.43a 635,8.15,102a 
THE COOK. THE THIEP. MS WIFE 
ANOHER LOVER (1^: rater 
Greenaway's bold, mordant tata of love, 
ravmge and haute cuisine. With Richard 
Bohriraar (the cook), Michael Gantoon 
Ohe thief), Helen Mirren (die wife) and 


IMb» (01-200 0200). Progs 1245,3.15, 
630,845. 

EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY (Ptfc A 
spaceship eager tor tomato dalghta 
crashes (h Los Amatos: cue tor a wRd. 
nme. modtoh musnl comedy from 
Aosctom fiB^mnaredkactor Julien 
Tampto. WHhGeana Davto. Jeff 


Cannon Oxford Street (01-6300310). 
Progs 130.335,6.00,835. 

FELLOW TRAVELLER (1ft Michael 
Eamn's mtngumg drama about tfw 
ttackHM era. (Hractad tw PhBp SavHa, 
wrtth Hart Bochner and Ron Samr as 
Hoaywood radicals varioutoy coping wttt 
the McCarthy nightmare (86 mins). 
Cannon Tottenham Court Rood (01-636 
8148). PTOgs ZOO. 4.10,6.15,825. 

■ FIBJ} OF DREAMS (Pop Orerty 
cosy Americana, with Kevin Costner as 
a farmer encouraged by a celestial voice 
to un hto cornfield (Or a basebaf pitch. 

irtnL 

teuton FUBwn Rood (01-5702636). 
PTOgs 2.10,6.15.9.0a 
Cannon H aym ar fc ai (01-83915271 
Progs 125,3^0.6.15.845. 



6 TOMMY CHASE: The (bummer's 
bend serves up no-nonsense hard bop 
for the dance crowd. 

Double Boas, 162 Earia Court Rd. 
London SW5 (01-835 2021), 930pm, 
£050. 

•fr FLORA PURIM A AIRTO: Up-beat 

Latin fusion, pkis support firom 
saxopnofMi stow wmamson. 

Ronnie Scoffs Club, 47 Frith St, 
London W1 (01-4390747), 930pm, £10 
(members E2). To Feb ia 

It ANDY PARK: Back fTOm a long stint 
as a television producer (Tutt/FriM. 
amongst others), the keyboards ptayer 
leads an eight-piece fe^Wtng 
saxophonist Bobby WtoharL 
Henry Wood Hafl, Claremont St. 
Glasgow (041221 5406). doors open 
730pm, £S on door. 

* WCK MORRISEY: A ni^it off from 
Morrtoay-Mulfln Band for the versatle 


Curwen Gatowy, 4 WindmB St, London 
WW01-636 1459), Mon-Fri ItonT 
6^tom, Sat I030am-lpm. free, untfl 

RAW FOREST ART: Paintings by many 
ooraomporary arttata. auch as Adrian 
Berg and Rose Wamock. which ckaw 
aUBnUon to the destruction ot tropical 
nan forests. 


London SW7 (01-938 8895). Mon-Sat 
10am-6pm, Sun 1-4pm, £230. until Fab 
25. 

THE ART OF THE PRfffT, PART 1: Old 


aouMazz saxophontot 
Band On The waft, Sw 


Swan St, 


exptora thto landscape artist's 
fasdnstion for the same few rnodfs to 
southern England. 

10arrH530pm. free, unto Feb 11. 

JUDITH COWAN: New works in copper 
and cast Iron Dy a ecutoeor ot forms 
derived from floral aru organic sources. 

Orisl QsSery, The Friary, Csmfff (0222 
^^ 4^ Mon-Sat Qam-SSOpm. free. 


GALLERY LECTURE: Charfae Lamb by 
Paul Webb. 

Nedonal Portrait O a B ary. Room 13, 

St Martin's Place, London WC2(0l-93D 
1552). 1.10pm, free. 

UMVERStTY OPEN LECTURE: N. 
Torrents talks on Hollywood and the 
Mexican Revolution. 

University Cotiege London, Darwin 

Theatre, Sowar Street. London WCl, 
1.15pm. free. 

MUKUM TALK: A workshop on the 
Reserve CoBectton <4 the Museum. 
Today, me vehicle CoBectton. 

Museum of London, London Wal, 
London EC2.1 -10pm, free. 


WALKS 


LEGAL LONDON - INNS OF COURT 
AND OLD BAILEY: Meat Temple tube, 
1030am. £330(01-937 4281). 


. 11 3: i • ;I •' J| |! -9 \ ' e- i 


CITY: Meet Menston House tube, Ham. 
£330(01-937 4281). 

A WALK M THE FOOTSTB^ OF 
SHERLOCK HOLMES: Meet Bakar 
Street tuba, 220pm, £3 JO (01*668 
4019). 


t BOOKINGS 


RRST CHANCE 


ROYAL OPERA: Booking for March tor 
OttOoty ESMi Mosnmsky with Vladimir 
Attantov in btie rota; new production of 
Before by GOtz Friedrich conducted by 
Solti with Eva Marton in ttte role; and 
Donizetti's L'Btafr-tfamarawfth 
Pavarotti. 

Royal Opera Houm, Govern Garden, 
Umdon WC2 (01-2401068). 
TaVpwsonal booking from today. 

SADLBTS WELLS ROYAL BALLET) 
Eastsr season at tour programmes, 
inetotfing worto pramtoreB or worict by 
Grahamlustto and WHflamTudiettr 
Kenneth MacMBan's &to Syncopations 
and Frederick Ashton’s La BRroxto .. 
aafMo.Da.vki BWtoy's FtowwsofJhe 
ferestpkmAtogriflhwst TctwBcovsky 
Poa do Deux, Panmotr. Lae Hemmnas, 
Don Quixote pas <to deux, and Lbs 
S ytpftickm. 

SadtaTa WaBa, Roaebwy Are, London 
EC1 (01-278 891Q. April 24-May 5. 
Postal boofctag open: General booking 
Fflb 5. 


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CLASSICAL TOP 20 


Vlvaldb Four Seasons-Kermady/ECO. Bur 

Mandefesohm Vlofin Concerto-KennedyfTare/ECO, HMV 

S^Ceio Concerto-Du Prt/Bart*o«/LSO. HMV 


gwlama Strauss's Dxptrm, In German. 

South Bank Concert Hate, London SE1 
(01-928 880(9- Advance txjoWng open. 
General booking Feb 6. 


LAST CHANCE 


<t PR MCE IGOR: New production from 
the Royal Opera by Andrei Serban now, 
alas, without Its fia quota of dancers, 


9 TO 

10 (11) 
11 (13) 
12(12) 

13 (10) 

14 04) 

15 (17) 

16 (15) 
17(19) 
18 (-) 

19 (-) 

20 (16) 


,^®-C«ao Concerto-Du PTO/Barenboim/Pdo. CBS 

VhraWfcFour Seasons-Hogwood/AAM, LOseau Lyre 

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Btaet Carmen HighEghts-Ozawa/ONDF, Ptedps 

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UtWd Webber Rotpiiam-Domlngo/Brigmman/ECO. HMV 

MahtoR Resurrection-Gilbert Kaplan, fMP Classes 

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lain MgMghta-Ermlar/ROHO. Royal Open 

Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker-Ermter/FJOHO, Royal Opera 

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Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture-Dtort/MSO, Dacca 

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CONCISE CROSSWORD NO 2091 


ACROSS 
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4 Body sugnanoo (6) 

9 Lever pivoi (7) 

10 Funeral ebam (J) 

11 Deceased (4) 

12 Keep ckar (4,4) 

14 6eb3ve in character 
(3.4A4J 

17 Truk driver (8) 

19 Swiss capital (4) 

21 Detestation (5) 

22 Perfect Buddhist state (7) 

23 Sorting for artist (6) 

24 Aiisfaoo(6) 


DOWN 

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2 Cook'S fixative (7) 

3 Music hafl act (4) 

5 Mock Edwardian youth 
(SJ) 

6 Drinking tube (5) 

7 Shabby (5) 

8 Shattered fragment 11) 





WORD- WATCHING 
Answers from page 22 
PERGAMENEOUS 

0»Of the nature or t extur e 
of parchment, parchment?, 
mostly in medical bk, Grom 
the Latin pergame a parch¬ 
ment, because the best 
parchment came from Per- 
gamam: “The consistence of 
the skin is somew hat 
pergameneous." 
ABOEDEAU 

(a) The sluice gate in a dike 
or river in Neva Soria 
and New Brunswick, Grom 
the French Canadian 
ctffrjstteoa: “At find sight 
it mighf seem wise to 
aboidean all riven at their 


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TELEVISION & RADIO 


Compiled by Peter Dear 
and Gillian Maxey 


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m P° ptiaa r P* ria pcc » g wB M 
■■■ &*& **»* c * se . “ estranged parents 
jgmmag over then- child - but with 
ratmtkxtum s which take it into the 
^jeshns of Hollywood melodrama. The 
^■parent aare A merican,. welLfceeled and 
jWk doetes. Their marriage, which 
^troteup after seven months, produced a 
jj dw g h t er, Hilary. The mother, Elizabeth, 
r^KBBafhat the child was serially abused 
l^ the fitther and, fearing that be would 
be granted a custody order, arranged for 
ffihuyto go into fwttng- Refusing to 
X Mam -HfiaiyV whereabouts to the 
:ro«tt, EUzabeth spent two years in 
prison lor contempt Only an amend- 


gofher released. Strenuously denying the 
aOeptioos. the fether, Eric, launched a 
bant loir Hilary which brought him to 


that Jiff crisply narrated in Hilary's In 
Hiding, Stephen Lambert’s film for 40 
JOtefes (BBC2, 930pm). With both 
more dan willing to tell their 
• stories, a video in which the child tells 
AJief* and an appearance from the 
paternal grandmother, most of the angles 
-amoovered. The accusations fly bade 
and 'fbrth, with Eric describing his 
fenner wife as the most evil wo man he 
has known and Elizabeth venting mndz 
.. of her anger on the judge (male) whom 
;jhe accraam of refusing to believe that 
. incest can happen in a middle-class 
fimfly.A* they try to decide where the 
trixth fiev viewers may fed that such 
public washing of ditty linen would not 
have happened had die case been British. 



nn—tnftftayl^d PUmermhaatsMi 

mmtiid gratae minion (BBC2, ftflOpm) 

As someone who would happily trade 
tile, entire output of French, Saunders, 
Edmondson and company far two 

mttttrt** nflcs Dawmn, I am commend¬ 
ing The Comic Strip Presents... 
(BBC2, 9.00pm) in the knowledge that 
im pp ps will disagree: And rather than 
go on about gifted people (also involved 
tnmgftf are Nigel Planer, Robbie 
Oohrane and Lenny Henry) squandering 
their comic talent in raucous horse-play, 
I wiS simply teff you the team's opening 
escapade (continued next week) involves 
French and Saunders as ornithologists 
trapped on the Falkland Islands as 
Aiientma’s General Galtieri decades to 
re-mvade: Enter Planer as a radio ham 
who calls in Edmondson and friends to 
mount an eventful rescue mission. 


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rmamwi—Nth Qotm. Steve RKter 
with NgMghts of too overnight 
action, andDavid tote w«h Samoa 
summaries at 035,735 and 
#45. Phis regular news fteatfines, 
business and financial reports, 
regional news, weather and travel 
information 

#40Kfeuy. Robert K&uy-Sflk Is tnthe 
chafr for another dfecusslon on a 
faptcal subject 

«L0D News and weather faHowedby 

Simon PafWn, with PMvdm 

« 1040 Rooted) (r) l&NRw 
to Eleven. Nerys Hughes with a 


#40 TV-am begins with News and 
Good Momfag Britain presented by 

Richard Keys and, from 7.00, by 
Mike Morris and Lorraine Kelly. With 
news at8*30,7.00,7.30,840, 
#40 and 940. After (fine indudes 
CteiraRaynar with advice on 
emotional and personal problems. 
945Lucky Ladders. Word association 


1140 Hews and weather faBowed by 






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Sons and Dau^riers. Australian 
drama focusing on the troubled 
lives of the Harmon and Palmer 
families 

440Hot Oog with Marcus Ctarke 4.15 
Dogtanten and the Three 
hhiskehounds(r) 

440 Proaa Gang. Sarah's story about 
a stolen wood carving triggers off 
memories and nightmares for 
Lynda. Meanwhile. Colin and Spike 
are batting far Ruby's affections. 








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5-40 News with Sue Carpenter. Weather 
640Home and Away (rt 
645 Themes News and weather 
640Thames Help. Jackie Spreckley 
with news of Hormone Replacement 
Therapy to help women through 
the menopause 

740Emnimdaw. Joe and Kate are off 
on their much-needed second 
honeymoon 

740Survival: Mght Hunters. Britain's 


8.15 W estminster #40 Ceefex 
#40 Daytime on Two: history of the 

Black Countty840An pttarcafion 
1040 Business and economics 
1040 Science chafiange 1040 
Spanning a divide 1140 Tropical 
rainforests 1140 Science in sport 
1140Tutoriai topics 1243 
Serving in the WRACS and as an 
RAF technician 1345 Drugs 
abuse 1240Science ; tricao n 140 
Ftngemouse 140 Music far 
saxophones . Jr 

240News and weather fofeowod by an 
introduction to brass instruments 
aiSU nfawi B eadshawO). (Coof a x) 
340News and weather followed by 
Westminster Lhro-lndudes Prime 
Ministsr's Question Time 340 
News, regional news and weather 
440Catchword. With host Paul Cole. 
440BaMnd the Heattenea with Pnd 
Boeteng and Jeffrey Archer. A 
discussion on the future of 
nuefaarpower 

540 Dawn Raga. Dawn on the Ganges 
by Benares (r) 

0-10 Hw ao reFro m EsrB> to mnm da 

640StM Money (1983) starring 
Dick Van Dyka and 9d Caesar. A 
made-Tor-taievteion comedy 
about Max. who is forced to retire 
from his executive p o oW o n In a 
New York bank. He deckles to exact 
revenge by usfag his computer 
skUs to obtain money from the bank 
and giving it to the local needy. 
Directed By BfflPersky 
740 Wldeworia: The Lest HBBMre. 

The whate-hunting Eskimo 
community of KIvaftM. Alaska 
840Notes in the Margin 1980-89. An 
frmrottntifDn by MU Coward 
into the poitics of nature 
#40 The Comic Strip Pr es en ts — South 
Adantic Rattan (see Choice) 

840 40 Mbwtes: KRary*s in HkBng. 

(Ceefax) (see Choice) 

10.10 SomnPfay Rrets: Fotofinlah, by 
Sonke Worimann. An unsuccessful 
phok>kxjmaltet with an eight- 
year-old daughter hits upon a plan 
which wiU revive his fiaggfeng 
fortunes 

lOLSONewsnlght 

11.15 The Late Show Indudes a history 
of the robot 1145 Weather 
1240BaMnd the Haadtoea. See 430 
1240am Weekend Outlook. A preview 
of Open University programmes. 
Ends at 1240 


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Now. Michael Lovett may run a 
business which is totally above 
board, but he has one or two lasfr- 
than-fagal sidelines which Sun 
Hill's DiBumside is keen to stamp 
out (Oracle) 

■40 THs Week: The Man Who Ruined 
FsrrantL How American James 
Guertin nearly brought down one 
of Britain’s biggest defence 
companies 

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Holmes to help solve the mystery (r). 
(Oracle) 

1040 News at Tan with Sandy GaH and 
Ju&a SomerviBa Weather 1040 
Thames News and weather 
1045The C8y Pro gram me exanvnes 

the Sky v BSB betee and Indudes an 
interview veto the Sky chief 
Rtgiert Murdoch 

114501- far London. A critical guide to 
the capital's entertainments scene. 
Fotiowed by Crtanestoupara 
1145 European Figure Skatmg 

Championships. Cov e r a ge of the 
lades champon&hip final in 
Leningrad. Followed by News 




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serial set in an Australan women's 


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140 Superstars of WrestBng 
2.15 News headUnas fotiowed by Hnu 
Mdsie (1939 b/w) starring Am 
Sothem, Robert Young and Ruth 
Hussay. The story of a brassy 
showgirl with a heart of gold. 
Directed by Edwin L. Marin 
340 ProfSas of Hafi and Oates 
440News headlines fotiowed by 

Three** Company. Comecor series 
440America’s Too Ten 
540ITN Morning News with Christabel 
King. Ends at 640 


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240pntFBgM 90: Disaster on the 
Potomac fl&4):Alr-dlsastermoviai, baaed 
on a red incident • 

440The Jeteons meet the FHntstone*: 
The prehistoric femfly meets a crazy famfly 
from outer space 

640Medela Heaven(1987):Two lost 
souls search ttie Earth tor each other 
7.40 Entertainment Tonight 
840Monty Python Live at the 
Hotiywood Bowl (1982): Classic Python 

sketches filmed on stage 

#40 Projecton Forthcoming movies on 

iSoO Deadly Pursuit (1988V-Two cops 
(Sidney Pettier and Tom Berengert trafl a 
psychotic Idner Into the Canadten 
mountains 

1146 Angels from Hal (196Q: A gang 
of outlaw ^Vietnam vats run riot In Cafimmto 
1.16MB l, the Jury (1982): Armand 
Assante assumes the Mika Hammer mantte 
440Escape to Victory (1981k Wartime 
escape movie In which PoWs form a footbati 
team to disguise their breakout Ends at 
545am 


EUROSPORT 


5-00am Int erna tional Buaness Report 
540European Business Channel640DJ 
Kat840Menu #40 Trans World Sport 
1040 Football 1240 European Flsure 


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640am Krfstane Backer 1140 
Remote Control 1140 Club MTV 1240 
Kristians Backer 1-OOpm Marcel 
VanthBt4403from 14.1S Marcei VantMt 
440Coca-Cola Report 445 Marcel 
Vanthflt540 Remote Control 540Ray 
Cokes740Club MTV640The Big 
Picture 640 Headbangers BaU 1040Coca- 
Cola Report 10.15 MaKen Wexo 
140am Videos 


740am Powarsports 840Alhletics 
#40 Sport an France 1040Spanish 
Soccer 1145 Ice Speedway 1245pm 
Boxing 2.15 ice Hockey 4.15 Spanish 
Soccer8401989 indoor Supercrose 
740 Update; Argentinian Football #.15 Pro 
Barters 1 1 40 Spanish Socoer 
12.15am Spain Spain Sport 1240US Pro 
Ski Tour 


1040am Jake’s Fitness Minute 1041 
Search far Tomorrow 1040SBm Cooking 


Style Hie 1245Sally Jessy Raphael 140 
The Rich Also Cry240Search for 
Tomorrow345Tea Break 3.10 Cinema 
445 Great American Gameshows 


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programmes is avaiabie fa the weekly 
magazine, TV Guide. 


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940 ABki the Mint Professor 
Anthony Clare with the 
magazine devoted to 
matters of the mind 
1040 News; "The Natural History 
Programme: Presented by 
Jessica Hotel and Fergus 
Keeing. with Mchael Scott 
toCaHomta 

1045An Act of Worship (s) 
1140 News; Qtizsns 
1145 My Heroes: caff Morgan 
talks to actor Robert Hardy 
about those peopie who 
have influenced him (see 
Choice) 

1140 First Person: Series of tala 
by first-time broadcasters. 
This week. Veronica Cacfl 
returns to Kashmir where 
she went to school end 
discovers there are tell 
lessons to be learnt 
1240 News: You and Yours with 
John Howard 


by Bob SinfiekL 5:: 
With Rodney Bewe 


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Lubotsky, ridte, Boris 

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and trio co nte xt s 
1140 Composers of the Week: 
Robert Schumann (Davkfe- 
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Fasdwigsehwaric aus WJen 


With Rodriey Bowes as Koi 
and Uz Raaer as Vera (s) (r) 
1245weather 
140 The Wbrid at One With 
James Naughbe 
140 The Archers (r) 145 
Sipping Forecast 
240 News; Woman's Hour 
Presented by Janni Munay. 
Keren Deco examines 
various wm and means of 
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temper t&mm; interviews 
with opera stars Arm Murray 
' and Phttp Lanpidgs. 
currently appearteg in 

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and Holocaust biographer: 
and American author and 
communications export, 
Sonia Hamfin 

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an estate agent b stealing 
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selection or the Paston 
Letters 

448Ka io k taa co po: Presented by 
Paul Alan. George Szertfes 
reviews JuBua Hay's Have 
at the Pit; the fBm Let's Get 
Lost is reviewed; a feature 
on tsarist terns; and Ian 
Kemp reviews the ENO’s 
production erf Beatrice and 
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and Robert WBBams 540 | 
Forecast 543 

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740Soundtrack: Part 5: 

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840iti^ysts (see Choice) 

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9.15 Kaleidoscope: Presented by. 
Christopher Cook. Anna 
Karf interviews author Devid 
Grossman axf reviews his 
book Sae Undar: Low, an 
account of the Jewish 
Holocaust; and Redmond 

O’Hamton reports on the 
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National Hfcay Museum (s) 

145 The Financial WOrtd Torfght 
94# Weather. 

1040 The World Tonight with 
Richard Kershaw 
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Remains of the Day, by 
Kazuo tehtouro. Part 9: LBBa 
Compton, Cornwall (s) 

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Second Seance. Hvfrpert 
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Night School 


.RADIO CHOICE. 


Peter Davalle 


• Without going to extremes 
by implying that there could 
be as many good amateur 
writers inside prison as there 
are good professionals out¬ 
side, Whispers on the Wing 
(Radio 4,7.20pm), this week’s 
Soundtrack, convinced me 
that behind the walls of one 
maximum security prison at 
least — Lewes. East Sussex — 
prose and verse are thriving, 
both in how the inmates speak 
out and in what they write 
down. How much of this has 
been influenced by the pris¬ 
on's writer-in-reside nee, Ste¬ 
phen Plaice, is not dear, but 
his listening ear and peculiar 
status (an outsider with a 
direct line to insiders) have 
dearly had an impact on the 
gad’s artistic creativity. In 
return, his own writing must 
have benefited enormously 
from contact with inmates 
such as the man who scoffs at 
the idea of prison (“a place for 
failed c riminate ”) being a 
university of crime C*If you 
think about it, you’d never 
send your child to a university 
filled with failed professors”). 


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22 


THE TIMES THURSDAY FEBRUARY I 1990 


Move oni Replanted trees bra 


Political sketch 


sport 

drags 

inquiry 

Omrimrd from page I 
the positive tests on Ricky 
Chaplin, a middleweight, and 
Gareth Hives, who won three 
silver medals in the 100kg 


Hives, aged 23, a sted 
worker from Port Talbot, is 
the Welsh National Cham¬ 
pion in the 100kg category 
and competed in the 1986 
Gaines when he finished sixth. 

Like Chaplin, the Welsh 
middleweight, stripped of his 
gold medal in the middles 
weight snatch competition. 
Hives was yesterday travelling 
back to the United Kingdom. 
Both face life bans from the 
sport. 

His mother Margaret said 
yesterday: “I did not know 
anything was wrong until X 
anted on the television. 

“I am too upset to say 
anything. I am waiting to bear 
more details.” 

A former training partner, 
Mr Joe Devries, who now 
owns a health dub in Port 
Talbot, said: ‘The Welsh boys 
are being made scapegoats. 
Everybody knows that drug¬ 
taking is rife in body-bmkhng. 
Gareth is a very nice bloke 
and very dedicated. 1 am sure 
he wiD be devastated by what 
has happened. 

T know everybody will turn 
their backs on bun but the lads 
who trained with Gareth will 
standby him and give him the 
support he needs.** 

In Bristol, where Chaplin 
often trained at a gym run by 
Mr Den Welch, the Welsh 
twiiw coach, his mother Edna 
said: T cannot believe this. I 
am so upset for Ricky because 
ft was his moment of glory 
nnned. He has never done 
anything like this in his life. 
His whole life has been 
wdghtfiftmg and 1 just do not 
know wfaat be will do if he is 
banned."* = 



IIP 

fill 

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A season of songs 
and Rabbie Bums 


They were singing, ye sterday. 
in the Chamber — between 
bouts of calling each other 
“traitors", and raising points 


In gold waichchain and 
yellow tartan trousers and 


waistcoat, it was Sir Nicholas gow’s Michael Martin (Lab) 
Fairbaim ' (Conservative, agreed. Being a councillor 


m. 


, ,iti ?.a. 


Perth & Kinross) who set the 
bizarre tone to the afternoon. 
He looked like a gift-wrapped 
oatcake. 

He sounded like a gift- 


meant having year home 
“inundated with complaining 
residents." 

“You can’t etgoy a meal 
without constant in tamp- 


itii 


wrapped fruit-cake — some- tion from telephone cafis." 
thing about more being spent Lord James looked hurt, 
per head in Scotland than in “I’ve been a councillor" be 
any other part of the Union, reproached us. 

“1 agree with the send- We pfogmj the DougZas- 


ments behind that question". Hamihons at dinner. 


^V**r**\> , ,.'.v-iSr'7,IIv£ 


Mr Ken Prichard Jones in his avenue of limes, including the pollarded trees which were 



fyJp-V if 



replied Scottish Secretary 
Malcolm Riftdnd. In other 
words, “you’ve got your facts 
wrong". They spend more in 
Northern Ireland, he said. 

Sounds right It is Ulster 
which gives the most trouble. 
The Scots come second. The 
Welsh come third in the 
handouts league. The English 
(utterly docile) come last 
This confirms a hypothesis 
that the more money you 
spend on people, the more 
they hate you. The father of 
one of your sketch writer’s 
schoolfriends was Admin¬ 
istrator of the Cayman Is¬ 
lands. He once gave me an 
account of his first visit to the 
islanders on Little Cayman, 
the smallest of the isles. 

There were only a dozen or 
so ragged inhabitants in this 
tiny place, the remainder of 
the population having been 
unfortunately swept into the 
sea during a hurricane. HM 
Government, daring its long 


"MyLoirL.” 

“What now, McJeevesT* 

“My Lord — there is 
another deputation at the 
gate-house. They wish to 
speak to you." 

“Are they tenants?" 

“No my Lund. They cal) 
themselves ‘ratepayers’." 

“Surely you mean ’persons 
liable to the community 
charge, McT? Damnation! 
And we've barely touched the 
quails' eggs. Send them up. 
And please silence that in¬ 
fernal telephonic apparatus.** 
Anyway, before Questions 
had proceeded much further. 
Lord James got bis own back 
with a neat tight book, ft 
started when Labour’s Wil¬ 
liam McKdvey began to sing. 

McKelvey was worried 
about his constituency of 
Kilmarnock and Loudon. 
They were dumping “billions 
of tons of rubbish and rub¬ 
ble" there, he said. If they 
dumped any more then (and 


and glorious stewardship of here be began to sing) Youll 
the territory, had been moved never smell the tingle o'er the 


to do almost nothing for these 
people and was certainly not 
planning to alter that 
economical state of affairs. 

As my friend's father 


Isles. Heaven knows what the 
tingle o’er the Isles might be, 
but some of us never wanted 
to smell it. 

It set Labour’s Did: Doug- 


When lifting becomes an obsession 


The satisfaction from weightlifting 
comes from beating records: world 
records, Olympic records, European 
records, British records, regional records 
and particularly personal records. 

This is the motivation for the millions 
who use weights and what inspires them 
to train day after day, year after year. 

Olympic weightlifting is the pinnacle. 
In Britain, it is a minor spoil, in spile of 
the immense popularity of weight- 
training for fitness as hundreds of new 
gymnasiums and sports centres testify. 

The history of the sport, going back 
centuries beyond the Ancient Olympic 
Games, is a romance of myth centring on 
the exploits of strongman exhibitions. It 
is also a saga of unceasing endeavour. 

Until the 1960s, it was believed that 
the body had to have 48 hours* rest 
between training sessions to recover 
from the intensive sessions, in which 
many tons of weights are lifted. To train 
more often was thought harmful. How¬ 
ever, the Bulgarians discovered that it 


ByJohnGoodbody 

was perfectly possible to lift weights not 
only every day but several times a day 
and improve performances. 

Much of tire improvement of the last 
20 years has been doe to harder training. 
Training knowledge has improved, as 
has diet Competitors have also started 
training seriously at a younger age. 

However, one of the main reasons for 
individuals being able to train harder has 
been the use by some weightixfters of 
hormone drugs, which allow quicker 
recovery from intensive exercise. 

Anabolic steroids, which allow 
competitors to train harder, began to be 
used in the 1960s. 

Weighdifters are consumed with the 
desire for this improvement but not all 
resort to drug-taking. 

ft isa sport which is easily measurable. 
Every time a lifter picks up the bar be 
knows how modi weight he is handling 
and bow that relates to his performance 
last week, last month or last year. That is 
its fascination. The sense of self- 


folfilment Is enormous because the 
activity is so exacLWeightlifting is about 
strength, a fundamental desire for a man. 
The psyche of weightlifter is consumed 
by this obsession. 

However, as the recent scandals in 
Britain and New Zealand have shown, 
this yearning for self-fulfillment some¬ 
times tempts weighttifters to take banned 
substances, which not only may. be 
injurious to their health but also causes 
them to run the risk of being caught in a 
major championship. 

If they are British and found to be 
positive, then they risk being banned for 
life. After the opportunity for a personal 
hearing, this wall be the fate of Ricky 
Chaplin and Gareth Hives. 

The irony is that the ban will deprive 
them of what they want above all else: a 
chance to demonstrate their strength in a 
sport that is their file, in their desore for 
more and more strength, they have been 
betrayed by a weakness. It is the 
weakness of cheating. 



waded ashore from the Gov- las (Dunfermline W) 
eminent Dinghy, the entire though. He decided “in this 


population of the island 
stood to attention on the 


season of Rabbie Burns** to 
quote — or misquote — the 


saluting and singing great poet, who (we teamed* 
TSod Save the Queen” Just a had discussed the poll-tax in 


thought, Mr Rifidnd. 


verae. “They break our backs 


Perhaps he was pondering /or Maggie's tax/Such a pa* 
it while Lord James Douglas- celofrogues in a nation." 
Hamilton answered a ques- Lord James peered mildly 
tion from the Liberals* across at the seething Doug- 
Menzies CampbdL Lord fas. “Robert Bans was him- 
James is a Scottish minister self an excise man, and knew 
who sits in the Commons all about tax" he observed, 
although he is a Lord, for Shortly afterwards, Mr Doug- 
reasons nobody quite under- las left the Chamber, 
stands but nobody dares ask, n . 

in case everybody else does IVXattbeW PjUTlS 


Resignation denied 


Continued from page 1 
chav did not elaborate on 
whether that "someone” 
might be in the Soviet Union 
or abroad, but pointed out 
that such rumours regularly 
circulated before Central 
Committee plenums. 

Unofficial opinion in Mos¬ 
cow is divided between those 
who suspect Gorbachov-sup- 


porters in the Soviet leader¬ 
ship and those who suspect 
Gorbachov-lobbyzsts In 

W ashington. 

Whoever is right, however, 
the aim would be the same: to 
demonstrate just bow much 
international confidence has 
come to depend on President 
Gorbachov remaining in 
office. 


THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE NO 18,206 



.WEATHER" 


A bright and breezy start 
everywhere with some 
showers on coasts. Cloud soon thickening in the South-west 
will spread rain north and east through the afternoon and 
evening. Strengthening sooth or south-west winds will reach 
gale-force over much of England, Wales and Northern Ireland 
late in the day with severe gales likely around exposed western 
coasts and bills. Outlook: Unsettled, colder. 


ABROAD 


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si-sleoe an-snow; l-Wr: c-csoud; r-ram 


AROUND BRITAIN 


ACROSS 

Z Without reversing, large car ar¬ 
rived iu plant (8). 

6 Aboard a warship by choice (6k 
9 Plowman accepts money for a 
tool (6). 

10 Agent for developing part of 
building (S). 

11 Cross about a set of tools having 
several cutters (S). 

12 Made oneself go to vet after tiny 
creature lost its tail (6). 

13 Saw a girt, for instance, on the 
way back (5). 

14 Untidy person causing trouble 
in county retreat (9). 

17 A country opened up by trail¬ 
breaking (Vj. 

19 Politicians do (S). 

22 In time deserter makes mistakes 

t6». 

Solution to Puzzle No 1&205 


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23 Miser using wood, we bear, and 
almost Doming beside (8). 

24 Flower cries out for use (8). 

25 Char to copy Jehu (6). 

26 Aquatic creature on right side of 
firixrock(6J. 

27 Chap about to enter part of 
garden covered with trees (8X 


DOWN 

2 'oly—that's admitted (7). 

3 One of 22 - supervisor has it 
(9). 

4 Drop in this month — 1 travel ai 
the end (6). 

5 In France, toe men's struggle for 
Liberation (IS). 

6 Airs from cobbler disheartened 
Mr PleydeD (S). 

7 Charm dispelled — a ram one 
(7). 

8 Rebel taking a rest elsewhere (9). 

13 A story portraying degradation 

<9k 

15 Companion in first port of trip 
omitted from book’s opening 
(9). 

16 Royalist's ace rival beaten (8). 

18 Raid about a sovereign for an¬ 
tique instrument (7). 

20 In the Jobcentre, a clerk offers 
blandishments (7). 

21 Things dropped from planes 
over the States (6). 


Coodse Crossword, page 20 


word-watching 

A daily safari through the 
language jungle. Which of toe 
possible definitions is correct? 
By Philip Howard 
PERGAMENEOUS 

a. Descended from Alexander 

b. Like parchment 
& Marrying often 
ABO tDEAU 

a. A sluice gate 
b- The prairie siskin 
& A Canadian lumberjack 
MOSUNCS 
a. Unfledged birds 
(l. Unripe apples 

c. Thin sharings of skin 
GIZZEN 

a. An extra mast 
b-To shrink 

c. T o dry meat in the son 

Answers oa page 20 


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dial 0898 500 followed by 
the appropriate code. 

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Contral Midlands.711 

East Midlands.-....712 

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on a deal 9 

.- Sea Containers remains intent 
OT Sdling parts of its British 
ftjry and container businesses 
to Temple Holdings despite 
repeated delays because of 
legal work, a New York an- 
- alystsaid yesterday. 

••- "The board seems to have 
: leaned over backwards to say 
Nreiie going to do this deal*," 
' said Mr Michael Cantons, of 
Tadcer Anthony. 

The deadline for agreement 
expired yesterday with (Hit any 

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Textiles up 

' Profits at Albed Textile Com- 
• panics rose 12 per cent to 
£)3J minio n in the year to 
s Sept e mbe r. A final dividend 
’ , of7.4p (6ilp) makes lL5p, up 

: 8 per cent. Tempos, page 24 


Siemens wins £300m UK power station contract 



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By Derek Harris 
Industrial Editor 

Siemens of West Germany has 
beaten international competition, 
including three British tenderers, to 
win a turnkey contract worth about 
£300 nrinioa for a new generation 
gas-fired power station planned on 
Humberside by PowerCen. 

The British companies which put 
in tenders were the General Electric 
Company (GEC), Northern En¬ 
gineering Industries (now part of 
Rolls-Royce, the aircraft engine 
makers) and John Brown (part of 
Trafalgar House group). They were 
beaten on price, said Mr Ed Wallis, 
chief executive of PowerGen, which 


is the smaller of the two electricity 
producers emerging at privatization 
of the Central Bectridty Generating 
Board. 

It means equipment like the 
turbines for the 900 megawatt 
station will be manufactured in 
Germany by Siemens, which is 
headed by Herr Karlheinz Kaske. 
But there is expected to be a British- 
supply element of about 40 per cent 
of the contract value mainly because 
of the construction work involved. 

The power station, at Kil- 
linghohne, south Humberside, is the 
first new contract to be let, with 
consent from the Department of 
Energy, since FUwerGen and Nat¬ 


ional Power were created. Both had 
applied for consent to build a 
station at Kiltingholmc where the 
site had already been assigned fix 
that purpose. The Department of 
Energy may have been swayed 


in PowerGen’s favour because it 
already had a gas supply deal lined 
op. 

It wffl be the first major British 
station using combined cycle gas 
turbine technology. Thu achieves 
SO per cent efficiency against the 35 
per cent of conventional coal-fired 
stations. This should help 


PowexGen pursue its strategy of 
being a low-cost as well as reliable 
producer of electricity, Mr Wallis 
said. 

KiTUnghoIme win also be kinder 
to the environment than present 
coal and oil fired stations because of 
fewer emissions. There is virtually 
no sulphur dioxide produced and 
less of the greenhouse effect gases, 
carbon dioxide and nitrogen di¬ 
oxide. 

KiDingholme wifi be taking most 
of the production of ihe Picfcerill gas 
field bring operated by Arco off the 
Lincolnshire coast The plan is to 
build a £20 million pipeline to bring 
the gas to shore and across country 


Elders poised 
to place 23.7% 
stake in S&N 


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Cray Etectronics is passing its 
interim dividend following 
half-time losses of £5£ m3- 
Eon. A final dividend is nof 
expected. Tempos, page 24 


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Elders IXL, the Austra¬ 
lian conglomerate which 
owns Courage in Britain, 
will place its 23.7 per cent 
stake in Scottish & New¬ 
castle next week and 
dans to announce a pnb- 
for-breweiy swap with 
Grand Metropolitan by 
mid-February. 

Several market-makers 
have tendered to place the 
S&N stake with institutions at 
about 325p 

At this price. Elders — 
he&ded by Mr John Elliott and 
an unsuccessful bidder at £1.6 
btibonfbrS&Nin 1988-wifi 
realize a £47 milli on kiss on 
top of holding costs of about 
£65 mifijoiK. 

S&N is co-operating with 
Elders on the placement. Mr 
Alick Rankin, its chairman, is 
in Australia with most of 
Ekbn' senior London-based 
executives. . 

. S&N shares ended 4p higher 
at 334p after touching a high 
of339p. 

The shares started the week 
at 328p and have suffered 
volatile swings for some time. 

Elders is announcing a 
significant restructuring on 
Monday. 

Heavy borrowings, credit 
downgradings and a generally 
poor perception of highly- 
geared Australian companies 
had forced Elders to took 
dosriy at non-core businesses. 

It is expected to refocus on 
brewing and agribusiness—its 
traditional interests — and to 
sell, among other assets, El- 


By Angela Mackay 

ders finance’s loan bode,, a 
10 per cent slice of Goodman 
fielder Wattie, the Austral¬ 
asian food company, and 13.9 
per amt of Greene, King & 
Sons, the British regional 
brewer. 

At the end of December, for 
example. Elders finance sold 
hs treasury activities to 
Dresdner Bank and soon after, 
shut the treasury operation in 
London. 

Elders has been selling non¬ 
core assets since the end of its 
last financial year on June 30, 
reducing group debt to an 
estimated Aus$1.8 billion 
(£817 miHionX 

As a key part of this 
strategy, the group wifi try to 
announce a deal with Grand- 
Met to coincide with the 
release of its interim profits on 
February 14. 

GrandMet already brews 
Foster's, Elders’ premium la¬ 
ger; under licence to supple¬ 
ment brewing capacity at 
Courage. 

Elders signalled it was closer 
to clinching the long-expected 
move when it took up a £250 
million call option over the 
Courage Pub Co last week. 

The sale and leaseback deal 
with Hudson Conway, Elders’ 
partner in the PubCb venture, 
must be dissolved by Decem¬ 
ber 6. 

This wifi give Elders full 
control over its 5,000 Courage 
pubs. 

It would also allow it to 
bring assets bade on to the 
balance sheet and afford it the 
power to engineer an asset 


swap with Grand Metropoli¬ 
tan. 

Sources at the British group 
said the deal was “pending” 
but emphasized the complica¬ 
tions provided by GrandMet’s 
licensing agreements with 
Quisbeig, Budweiser and 
Holsten. 

Elders win gain more than 1 
50 per cent of GrandMeft 
brewing business in the deal. 

Neither the Australian nor 
the British company have 
much spare cash, particularly 
after GrandMet paid $5.23 
billion for Pfilsbury, owner of 
Burger King, in the US. 

Some analysts have mooted 
that Hariin, the company 
formed by Elders’ executives 
which bid Aus$2.57 for Elders 
in a novel move last year, is 
also looking at the PubCo for 
brewing deal to reduce its 
holding in Elders to less than 
50 per cent. 

Hariin, which has debts of 
Aus$2.85 billion, according to 
Mr Terry Povey, Australian 
stocks analyst at ANZ 
McCaughan, the broker, may 
seek to accomplish this by 
inducing GrandMet — or 
another — to underwrite a 
share placing. 

The Monopolies and Merg¬ 
ers Commission’s report into 
the brewing industry has 
been the catalyst for the deal 
between Elders and Grand- 
Met 

GrandMet already has an 
Aus$50 million investment in 
Hariin, injected at the tune the 
bid was announced in early 
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to Killinghohne. PickeriQ, devel¬ 
oped at a cost of £200 miUion, is 
expected to have a production life of 
at least 25 years. 

KfiZingboIme is expected to be the 
fim of a series of new power stations 
for PowerGtm which believes it will 
need up to 15.000 megawatts of 
additional capacity by the early 
years of the next century. 

Preliminary she preparation is 
due to start next month and about 
300 jobs will be created when the 
construction phase begins in the 
summer. 

The power station will need an 
operational staff of about 50 when 
completed in October 1992 

" Electricity 
profits 
projection 
cut back 

By Graham Seaijeant 

Mr John Wakeham, the En¬ 
ergy Secretary, is understood 
to have reacted agreement on 
the complex structure of 
electricity supply contracts be¬ 
tween generating companies 
and the 12 distribution 
companies. 

The contracts, some of 
which are likely to be ap¬ 
proved shortly, have been the 
greatest stumbling block in 
setting up the new electricity 
market in advance of pri¬ 
vatization. 

Flotations are due to start 
with the distribution com¬ 
panies this summer and be 
completed by the two inte- 
$ grated Scottish boards by the 
summer ofl 991. 

Mr Wakeham has con¬ 
firmed that vesting day, when 
the assets of the old Central 
Electricity Generating Board 
and the regional electricity 
boards are vested in the new 
companies, will be March 31. 

This confounds fears of 
further slippage at this stage in 
the privatization timetable. 

But the structure of the 
contracts, and the Govern¬ 
ment’s desire to avoid a 
further big round of electricity 
price rises before privatiza¬ 
tion, will cut starting profits of 
National Power and Power- 
Gen, the two non-nuclear 
generating companies, well 
below what was envisaged at 
onetime. 

Assets wifi be written down 
to maintain healthy returns on 
capital employed. 

City estimates suggest that 
the sale value of the entire 
industry in England and 
Wales may be less than £10 
billion, with as little as £3 
billion for National Power and 
PowerGeo. 

The generating companies 
were originally thought likely 
to account for a much higher 
proportion of the total pri¬ 
lls valuation proceeds. 




Charges bite into 
WH Smith profit 


Pound inches up 
to Lawson level 






By Colm Campbell 


By Our Economics Staff 


London: Bank Base: 15% 

3-month Interbank 15232 - 1 5*52% 
3-month otaWe bite:14 ,, a2-1414% 
US: Prime Rata 10% 

Federal Funds 8 s >e%" • 

3-month TrMSoryBtts 7.78-7.74% 
30-year bonds O^'n-SS’ 1 »’ 


WH Smith, the high street 
books-lo-DIY group, believes 
much of the consumer gloom 
has passed it by, repotting 
good Guistmas trading and 
strong sales in January. 

Sir Simon Hornby, the 
chair man, said trading profit 
from continuing business rose 
by an effective 18.9 per cent to 
£47 mini mi in the 26 weeks to 
December 2, although the 
group turned in a lower in¬ 
terim pre-tax profit because of 
higher interest charges. 

The interest charge jumped 
from £6.5 _ milli on to £1L8 
milli on which in tom dipped 
half time pre-tax profits from 
£41.8 milli on to £35.1 million. 
There were no property sates 
in the latest period, and the 
latest period covers 26 weeks 
compared with a 27-week 
trading period previously. 

The shares fell from 320pto 

300p as analysts gave a mixed 


reception to results, but later 
recovered to trade at 317p. 

In the interim period, the 
company invested more than 
£100 milli on in expanding 
core businesses and realized 
£37 millio n from the sale of 
peripheral activities. For the 
first time at the interim stage, 
turnover tripped the £1 billion 
mark at £1.02 tnfikm (£936 
million). The dividend rises 
from 3.6p to 4p. 

Our Price enjoyed strong 
growth in the interim period, 
but the DIY sector remains 
generally depressed and trad¬ 
ing profits from operations in 
this di vision slipped from £83 
milli on to £5.1 million. 

Operating and start-up costs 
associated with the Astra sat¬ 
ellite resulted in losses of £32 
minion at WH Smith Tele¬ 
vision (£1.8 million loss 
previously). 

Tempos, page 24 


The pound continued to make 
small gft j n s in thfi foreign 
exchange market, extending 
the recovery from the post- 
Lawson fafl. Against the mark, 
it dosed in London up about 
half a pfennig at DM2.8312 
and a gains t the dollar was 
virtually unchanged at 
$1.6805, leaving the effective 
exchange index 0.1 higher at 
89 after a high of 89.1. 

The pound has now recov¬ 
ered three quartets of its fill 
from the low point just after 
Christmas of 85.8, dosing 
yesterday 1.2 per cent below 
the 90.1 at which it dosed 
before Mr Nigel Lawson re¬ 
signed as Chancellor of the 
Exchequer on October 26. 

The US Commerce Depart¬ 
ment’s index of leading in¬ 
dicators rose 0.8 per cent in 
December to 145.7, seasonally 
adjusted. This c o mp ar ed with 
an increase in November of 


0.1 per cent and market 
forecasts of about 0.5 percent 

The Confederation of Brit¬ 
ish Industry yesterday called 
for a reversal of the divergence 
between pay and productivity 
growth so as to avoid further 
job losses. 

The appeal followed Tues¬ 
day’s CBI warnings that the 
economy is near to recession. { 

Mr Rod Thomas, the CBTs 
director of employment af¬ 
fairs, told a London con¬ 
ference that the cutback last 
year of 42,000 jobs in manu¬ 
facturing would be just a 
foretaste of what was to come, 
if wage rises continued to 
outpace productivity gains. 

• Woolwich Building Society 
says mortgage rates could be 
two percentage points lower 
by the end of this year, with 
base rates on the way down by 
summer to reach 13 per cent 
by the end of the year. 


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Lord Barnett, the former Labour Cabinet 
minister and now vice chairman of me 
BBC, has broken his sflence over his 
involvement in the affiure of Dmmmon 
International Group, the crashed finan¬ 
cial services conglomerate once nm by 
Mr Max Lewinsolm. 

Lord Barnett said he felt he was edged 
out as ^airman at Dominion in 
November by attempts by l^ge 
shareholders, orchestrated by two 
substantial shareholders, to go over his 
fy>ad and organize a rescue package. 

The two were the brothers Mr Rupert 
Galliers-Pratt and Mr Nigel Cayner, 
whose Film Finances company was 
fought by Dominion in Aprilfor shares, 
bringing them on to the board. 

“There were discussions tal'ing place 
h-tween the brothers and the banks 


without any reference to me," he said. “I 
just wasn't involved, I had no in fl u en ce 
or power. I said I don't like this position 
and Tm resigning.” 

The rescue plan, which would have 
seen the shares reqnoted at 5p and the 
company valued at just £3.5 million, fell 
apart after the banks, who are owed more 
than £100 million between them, refused 

Firm with many faces . . 28 

to support it Price Waterhouse was 
ap p oint ed a^ rn * 11 ’^rt r a fo 1 * last month. 

Lord Barnett was countering criti'rism 
among; institutional shareholders of his 
role as chairman. He was brought in as 
deputy in November 1987 because of his 
links with Mr Lewinsohn through Top 
Value Industries, now Conrad Conti¬ 
nental, where he is chair man and where 
Mr Lewinsohn sold his stake last year In 


December 1988 Lord Barnett became 
chairman at the instigation of a group of 
char fhf >k fer< t inrinriing the two brothers, 
who were becoming increasingly con¬ 
cerned at Dominion’s financial affairs 
and the treatment of various eariier 
acquisitions and disposals in the ac¬ 
counts. He was asked by shareholders to 
investigate. 

The other non-executive who stood 
down with Lord Barnett, Mr John 
Qarke, a director of Robertson Re¬ 
search, the mining group, said be 
believed Mr Galliers-Pratt and Mr 
Giyzer had contributed to the collapse of 
DominuuLHe said there was “no ob¬ 
vious foundation" to the allegations 
Lord Barnett was required to investigate. 
He believed that as the brothers pro¬ 
gressed their rescue plans last year, the 
non-executives had been increasingly 
isolated. 



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WH Smith’s wounds only superficial 


W H Smith’s results 
do not make the best filing 
lists. They show the burden of 
higher interest rates — relief 
from which is some way off 
yet — and a 16 per cent fin in 
pre-tax profit from £41.8 mil¬ 
lion to £35.1 minion. 

It is Smith’s first downturn 
for some time, and immediate 


to knock the shares down 
from 32Ip to 300p. They later 
recovered to 317p. 

But bear in mind that latest 
interim results cover 26 weeks 
to December 2 against 27 
weeks, and the conclusion 
must be that the company* 
chaired by Sir Simon Hornby, 
has perfo rm ed surprisingly 
wdl within its core business. 
Also, there were no property 
profits (£2.4 milKnn pre¬ 
viously) to flatter. 

At the trading level, profits 
from continuing businesses 
rose 18.9 per cent (on a like- 
for-liloe basis)or by 13percent 
to £47 million as advertised. 

News, books, and stationery 
were strong, although a slow¬ 
down in DIY checked Do It 
All operations, and a higher 
investment spend on televis¬ 
ion interests sawtiadxng fosses 
from TV services rise from 
£1.8 million to £3J milli on. 

The run in the interest 
charge from £&S million to 
£11.8 million for the half-year 
- against a charge of £11 
million for all of the previous 
12 months — reflects high 
borrowings and the level of 


rates. Interest cover at 4.5 
times should rise above 5 
times come the year-end. 

After a period of chopping 
and changing, Smith now 
looks set to consolidate and 
build on its trading blocks. 
New store design has worked, 
a certain percentage of dis¬ 
tribution business his recently 
been won again from Nera 
International, television in¬ 
terests in time will bring their 
rewards, Christmas trading 
was good and a property 
revaluation is due at the year- 
end. 

If the worst of the High 
Street winds confinne to pass 
WH Smith by, then year-end 
pretax profits of £90 million 
(£84.1 million) should be 
within reach. So if Smith can 
convince the market fiat it 
will not be stepping on any 
banana skins, then the shares 
on a p ro spect i ve p/e of 10.7 
stand every chance ofbeing re- 
rated. 

Allied Textile 

Allied Textile Companies is a 

most anriytat, Not 

only has it survived a period 
of great turmoil in the textile 
industry, it has p r ospered 
while stocks in more glam¬ 
orous sectors such as electron¬ 
ics have been floundering. Re¬ 
markably, ft sustained annual 
increases of 15 percent in both 
earnings per share and divi- 
dends throughout the Eighties. 



Sir Sboon Hornby, W H Smith chairman: £11.8* interest bfll 


A key feature underlying its 
success was the realization 
that there was no shame in 
withdrawing from unproduc¬ 
tive activities and reinvesting 
the proceeds in gifts. 

At the end of last year fire 
value of its cash, quoted 
securities and investment 
properties amounted to £42 
million — not far short of half 
its market capitalization. 

Allied does not believe in 
overpaying for acquisitions. 


either. It launched a £21.3 
million offer for the carpet- 
maker Hugh Mackay towards 
tire end of 1988, but withdrew 
when it became dear that 
Mackay’s profits were not 
going to meet maxtet expecta¬ 
tions. Last month it made a 
renewed—and agreed—bid at 
a third of the price. 

Acquisitions have been cru¬ 
cial in repositioning Allied 
away from fire more compet¬ 
itive areas of tire traditional 


Huddersfield worsted trade. 
The purchase of Mayfield in 
1985 took it into synthetic 
textiles and Buhner & Lumb, 
bought in 1987, broadened it 
into topmaking. Including 
Mackay, these “new” busi¬ 
nesses will account for nearly 
two thirds of Allied’s sales. 

The industry-wide slow¬ 
down left profits only 12 per 
cent ahead at £13.3 million 
and earnings just 8 per cent 
higher at 34p last year. With 
Mackay on board. Allied will 
do well to meet analysts' 
forecasts of £14 million and 
3Sp this tmre, for a p/e ratio of 
10 at 364p. There may be a 
dull spell ahead, but the shares 
are excellent value on a long¬ 
term view. 

Cray Electronics 

The new management team at 
Cray Electronics has lots of 
band pounding to do before 
the shares can be assessed on 
normal investment criteria. At 
6lp, they offer hope value 
alone for a loss-making com¬ 
pany that win struggle to 
emerge with perhaps 3p of 
earnings by the end of next 
finamraal year. 

But the trio now at the helm 
have a spectacular record of 
success at UEI, bought by 
Carlton Cbmmunicatioas fa st 
year. They can probably make 
a go of turning Oay round and 
encouraging its core busi¬ 
nesses to blossom. But first, 


their attentions will be de¬ 
voted to surgery. 

Cray shattered shareholders 
late last year with revelations 
that previous profits were less 
than £5 million rather than the 
£17 million reported. Shortly 
after, the former UEI team 
replaced the old guard. 

Yesterday's interim profits 
cover a period before these 
changes and are therefore 
largely academic — except for 
the exceptional and extraor¬ 
dinary charges made to dean 
up the business. 

Profits of £1.2 million on 
£52 million of sales .were 
swamped by £1.83 million of 
exceptionals and £3.6 million 
below the line for closure of a 
Iossmaking Swiss joint ven¬ 
ture. A £2 million post-tax loss 
thus bec am e a £5.6 million 
hole in the balance sheet. 

Its defence businesses are 
being groomed for sale and 
might raise £15 million, but 
not much before the end of 
1990. That leaves sound busi¬ 
nesses in communications, in¬ 
strumentation and software 
systems. Tbeir £100 million of 
sales might generate £8 mil¬ 
lion of pre-interest profit, but 
much oflhis will initially go to 
Cray’s bankers. 

The balance sheet, currently 
grisly with £40 million of debt 
against £26 million of net 
assets, will take time to repair. 
Expect losses of around £5.5 
million this year and profits of 
perhaps £3 million next The 
shares are high enough. 


business roundup 


Platignum seeks buys 
after reducing loans 

Platisnum. the stationery, furniture and housewares gro 
on the lookout for 

borrowings from £4 million at March 31,1989,to£33imai 
at September 30 — and to £2.J million today. The group, now 
under new management, says that it is taking legal action in 

relation to its May, 1989, profit forecast “founded on 
information subsequently proven to be materially incorrect” 
The new **«" reports a pre-tax profit of £209,000 for the 
six months to September 30 on turnover of £11-2 mill ioa. 
However, it says: “Any comparison with the unaudited 
figures for the six months to Jitfy31,1988, should be treated 
witfa r**™™ caution, as these bore little relation to the 
figures for the 14 months to March 31, 1989.** For 
purposes of legal compariskm, Platignum shows a pre-tax 
loss of £129,000 for the six months to July 31,1988. 

Expansion Micrelec call 

for Verson funds buy 


Verson International, the 
West Midlands metal-fann¬ 
ing machinery maker, has 
acquired Metfonn Engineer¬ 
ing for £1.7 motion. Vendors 
received 4.25 million new 
ordinary ICp shares, of 
which 750^000 are retained; 
35 miffioa will be placed at 
37p per share. Mr Tan 
KeDeher, Verson chairman 
and managing director, owns 
38 per cent of capital. 


Micrelec Grasp, maker of 
petrol station equipment, is 
baying CGF Automation and 
Gwendolen* Holdings for 
£1.77 ffiiifc", via a l-for-4 
rights issue of 255 m3Uen 
new ordinary shares at 13Qp 
a share. The balance of the 
£3.13 mOfiou issue, under¬ 
written by Comity NatWest 
Wood MacKenzie, will be 
used fiur working capital. The 
USM shares foil 3p to ISSp. 



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SM&E slides into red 

Sanderson Murray A Elder (Holdings), the textile grow 

subject to a £33 millioii takeover bid from Mr Tony Bramall, 

its 45 per rest shareholder, and* a £149,000 loss (£36,000 
profit) iu the six mouths to December. Sales fefl to £2J9 
milBen (S2M million) and the loss per share is 7.8p (MBP 
eanringO. There is bo interim dividend. 

The company said Its activities had come under increasing 
pressure sod the levels of orders had worsened in. the more 
difficult trading conditions since Jniy last year. The offer 
document, Ud&g 175p a share in cash, was posted to 
shareholders yesterday. The shares fell 2p to 203p. 


Courtyard’s 

£ 10,000 
Courtyard Leisure, the City 
wine bar operator which 
joined the Third Market ia 
December, reports pre-tax 
profits of £ 10,000 iu the six 
months to end-September, 
on t ur n o ver of £495,000. 
Earnings per share are 
0.l6p. There is no interim 
dividend. Pre-tax profits 
were £94,000 in the year to 
end-March 1989 on turnover 
of £829,000. 


CMA leaps 
29% to £1.6m 

Central Motor Auctions 
lifted pre-tax profits 29 per 
cent to £M>2 mDUon in the 
year to cnd-October, helped 
by auction proceeds up 42 
per cent at £259 million and 
higher interest receipts of j 
£450,000 (£259,000). Eps 
rise 13 per cent to Uk25p and. 
the final dividend is 235p- 
(2p) making 335p (2.75p) 
for the year. Its USM shares 
eased 3p to H3p. 


Mercury joins Ermes 

Mercury Paging, the joint Mercury Communications and: 
Motorola venture, is to join toe pan-Emopean radiopaging j 
network Ermes—die European Radio Messaging System, set j 
to launch In 1992. It will cover the whole of Europe, parts of! 
Scandinavia, through into Turkey. 

The company, which now has 40,000 subscribers since its 
bumch two years ago, has beat consplcaoariy absent from toe i 
push to expand European paging net w or k s. Mercury Paging 
is not part of Enromessage, toe network which iriD allow 
limited Continental paging between Britain, France and 
Germany. 


Dangers of 
banks on 
the cheap 

Setting up a bank can cost as 
little as £4,460, a Family 
Money investigation has 
revealed. 

And clients can end up 
heavily out of pocket when 
high interest rates for savers 
foil to be paid or loans do uot 
materialize after an arrange¬ 
ment fee has been handed 
over. 


TH E TIMES 


ON SATURDAY 
IN COLOUR 


Details are included in 
seven pages of Family Money 
on Saturday. 

Also, a change of approach 
is advised for investment 
trusts; three families tell how 
they built their own homes 
wjih help from building soci¬ 
eties; and the bonuses being 
offered to members of three 
societies are explained. 


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-up by AmEx after 
i’s exit at Shearson 


Aniciican Express Com- 

Lehman . Hunon, Ss 
.61 pa: cm securities subsid- 
£2x2? ancmpt to halt its 


By Ndl Barnett and James Bom 


• ^oCotai, Shcanotfs 

WMMwr and the man who 


■■""TT" accompany mto 
,one of tfae US’s 

tes groups,resjgned on Tues- 
, day night altera row with Mr 
-tones Robinson m, AmEx's 


i ^ifc is bring replaced by Mr 
Howard Oaxfc, AmEx’s chief 
financial officer. 

•■.-At the same time, Shearson 
has announced it iscancefline 
ite planned 20 million share 
«d replacing it with a 
21 minion share rights issue 
which will be fully under¬ 
written by AmEx. 

Shearson’s 
shares: |HL to a low of SlOVfc 
amidst fears on WaQ Street 
that the company’s share offer 


would not succeed. Shearson 
has been forced to raise an 
extra $850 miBinn (£506 mil¬ 
lion) capita], of which the offer 
was a part, after b e in g threats 
coed with a credit down* 
Piling by Moody’s, the raring 
a 8£ncy. The downgrading 
would have Shearson 

from 3A to a B grade, and cost 
n. up to $40 million a year in 
mgber interest charges. 

News of Mr Cohen’s depar¬ 
ture and the rights 


a recovery to Si 1 % yesterday. 
After the rights, AmEx wul 

red i xy its i n sn^ r ^ n ^ 

45 per cent, via a medal 
dividend of up to 23 miBfo r i 
Shearson dunes to AmEx 
shareholders, allowing AmEx 
to take the firm’s debt off its 
balance sheet. 

. The departure of Mr Cohen 
is a body Mow to a one-time 
wwwferfcuidof WaD Street He 
became president and chief 


executive of Shearson in 1983, 
two years after Shearson Loeb 
Rhodes was acquired by 
American Express, and be¬ 
came chairman when h took 
over Lehman Brothers Kuhn 
Loeb in 1984. 

But it was the $960 million 
merger with EF Hutton, the 
largest deal in the US securi¬ 
ties industry, that established 
Mr Cohen’s preeminence. 

Since then Shearson has 
fallen victim to the over¬ 
capacity problems that face all 
major US securities firms. 

“The moral of this story is 
that in order to successfully 
run a people business you 
must have a leader at the top 
who everyone can respect and 
that leader must have humil¬ 
ity and respect relative to the 
people who work with him,” 
said Mr Perrin Long, a veteran 
analyst of the securities 
indnsty at Upper Analytical 
Services. “I don’t think Peter 


Cohen ever had that “Maybe 
the long-term repercussions 
are quite favourable for 
Shearson, given that Ameri¬ 
can Express now has the 
ability to move the firm in any 
direction it wants,” be said. 

■ “My guess is it will move 

Shearson back to the Shearson 

of old where it concentrated 
on retail brokerage.” 

Mr Cohen will retain the 

title of chairman until he is 

replaced in March by Mr 
Warren Heilman, a partner in 
He ilman & Friedman, the 
California investment group, 
who recently agreed to invest 
$75 million in Shearson. 

Mr Heilman will serve in a 
part-time, non-executive 
capacity. 

A Shearson spokesman said 
Mr Clark was committed to 
maintaining all parts of the 
business, including jp targe 
London operation which em¬ 
ploys more than 1,100. 


Summer blues for Colorvision 




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4i• s; **8 r ,*r&b, 
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Expanding Coforvishm’s rimm of stores: Neville Mkhaelson, second right, Colorvision’s chairman, with, from left, Nigel 
Elton, finance director, Bernard Mkhadson, property and investment director, and Colin Lewis, a director 


CotovfaiM has fdt the effects 
of hotter rnmprtftfnn in fte 
tekviaiB* and ride© retailing 
market and seen pre-tax prof¬ 
its drop 7.7 per cent to €34 

■ ■Oka for the year ending 
Sep temb er (Sam Fnkhonse 
writes). 

; Mr NevOfe Mkhaebon, the 
chairman, says that the excep¬ 
tionally fine warmer and the 


Optical and 
Medical 
up to £3.6m 

By Sam Parkhouse 

Strong civil aerospace orders 
helped Optical and Medical to 
a 5 per cent pre-tax profits 
growth to £3.6 million in the 
six months to September. 

Aeroplane fuselage and 
structural design activity en¬ 
joyed good demand, and ac¬ 
counted for more than 30 per 
cent of the turnover of £28.8 
milli on (£27.7 million). 

O mi tec Instrumentation, 
which serves the main car 
manufacturers, has expanded 
to meet growing demand in 
the field of hand-held diagnos¬ 
tic equipment ! 

The interim dividend is 
tiffed from i.65p to 1.75p on 
earnings pa share of 5 Jp (Sp). 

The shares were unchanged 
at 112p. I 

New home 
for CSV 
oil team 

Tony Mackintosh, who helped 
build up the top-ranked oil 
team at Wood Mack e nzie in 
the 1970s and early 1980s — 
and stayed on as a director of 
Hfll Samuel when the rest of 
his WoodMac colleagues 
moved on to County — hopes 
that history is about to repeat 
itself at his new employment 
abode, T-aing & Cnockshank. 
For Mackintosh, who joined 
L&C; at the start of January, 
as he^d of institutional re¬ 
search and marketing, has just 
recruited the three-man oD 
team from the ruins of 
Gticorp Scrimgeour Vickers. | 
They are analysts Arthur He- , 
pber, who once worked for 
BP, and Philip Morgan, and 
specialist salesman ^ Wilt • 
Wilde. “I started talking to 
them before CSV made its 
announcement,” says Made- 
in tosh, who adds that Morgan 

win be the lead analyst in the 

team, with Hepber concentra¬ 
ting on utilities — “water and, 
increasingly, electricity. ' 
Wilde will be their main 
salesman. “What we are act¬ 
ing is really an oil and utilities 
team,” explains MadontoSh. 
The newcomers will y**® 
LACs existing oil team. Ebra 
beih Butler, who hitherto ran 

the team, will, after six years 

with tiie firm, be leaving. 


C o ia am enfs policy of dis¬ 
led to shrinking safes through¬ 
out the industry. 

CatevUaa, which still 
■mmj wI to dn—t —t g M the 
Nor th - eas t, experienced a 1 
per cent drop in profit 


Mr M i rhaef s o a says that 
•pie became wary of bnying 


satellite television dishes 
beet—e of a fear that they 
s light be rendered obsolete 
when British Satellite Broad¬ 
casting joins Sky as a pro¬ 
gramme provider. 

Mr Mkhadson said that 
the rise hi tinuove i , to £3359 
mflHoa from £2458 million, 
was almost entirety dee to an 
increase in the number of 


Peking near deal 
on HK Telecom 

from Lulu Yu, Hong Kong 


A complex deal by Peking's 
China International Trust and 
Investment Carp (C&tic) to 
finance its purchase of 20 pa 
cent of Hong Kong Telecom¬ 
munications is expected to be 
finalized by next week. 

The arrangement involves 
HK$7 bfltion (£532 million) 
in bank loans, and the issue of 
Hong Kong Telecom warrants 
to raise another HK$1 bOHon. 

Otic is buying from Cable 
and Wireless, which owns 76 
pa cent of Hong Kong 
Telecom, for about HK510 
billion. If successful, the deal 
will be the largest eva Chinese 
investment in the colony. 

Qtic, C hina ’s main invest¬ 
ment arm, has been on an 
expansion track recently, last 


month acquiring a 38 pa cent 
stake in Hong Kong’s second 
airline, Dragonair. 

It has appointed Barclays 
Bank co-ordinator for the 
Hong Kong Telecom ac¬ 
quisition, and is expected to 
announce details of the 
financing w ithin a fortnight 
Officials of Otic, Cable and 
Wireless and Barclays have 
been busy securing support for 
the deal from banks in Tokyo 
and Europe since last week. 

Mr John Sunderland, head 
of Barclays’ merchant banking 
division in Hong Kong, sai± 
that response from Japan had 
been “extremely positive". 

Hong Kong Telecom’s cap¬ 
italization is about 10 pa cent 
of the colony’s stock market 



THE TIMES CITY DIARY 


Green’s crystal ball 

FoDowing our recap of the pari Forty” b—f—s—i to watch 
winners of the Gaardiaa’r in Basimeu magazine last Ocf- 
Yovng pit -— rn of the obex. Green’s reported qaete 
Year award - which mdnded then ... *Tbb unHkety to be 
John Ashcroft, chairman of satisfied if I'm doing the same 
Colored — a reader reminds job fox the same sbe business 
me that hbfeUow director, the fer the next 19 years." As my 
company's amiable chief exec- router amtribmor quite 
Htire Philip Great, was cited rightly conria des , “Oeariy a 
as one of the “Forty nnda man with foreszghtT 

and covering all the main grid Holy not crude 

markets of the world, will J 

spring into action, with a base After Ihe revriapon u Hie City 

due of December 31, 1988. Dmry of BPs new London 

There will also he individual °® c& 

country indices, and South cha^d|e Rev Bernard Croft 

African golds can be stripped '™ te ? 6 ® m *9* *° re ®?? nt 
outfor ttose who still find it tale oftwolnshops walking 

rainful to look at the SA torn St *«“» ‘°- 

SataL With the gold still in ward s Rossen Sonare. Upon 
it should prove a pasaue.thepmshchurdiwith 

Si investment tool ■“ ”<* “S™* 

“fx. _ A _*■ _ remarked to the other: “Fve 

• J* 8 ? van: “Please °^ cn wondered who those 

WnhS women are on that church 
^ P«ch." “Why,” came the 

my was. - reply, “don’t you know; they 

are the five foolish virgins,” 
(of St Matthew, chapter 25). 
“But,” said the first, “there are 
only four of them.” “That’s 
right,” his companion replied, 
“one’s away for the oiL” 

• The manager of a small 
rninnf t tarin g firm in Swit¬ 
zerland received a memo from 
his boss. It read: “Yon have 
been working very hard for the 
company in the pari 12 
months, mid I would like to 
give yon this cheque (for 
£3^000). If yon perform well 
tMs year, I w31 sign it” 



PO-IT -ALI 




a, is launch- 
ire index of 
i effect from 
Carr Inter- 
hfires Index, 

I companies. 



i stores, from 44 to 59 in the 
' year. Since the year-end, a 
: fintbex 10 have opened. Color- 

• vision hopes to have a 20 pa 

• cent market share throughout 
the country event—By. 

The year's dividend rises 
125 pa cent via a final of 
255p, iwakfag 45ft on earn¬ 
ings per share down 75 pa 
’ cent to 105p. 


Burton wins 
court battle 
with Revenue 

By Gillian Bowditch 

Burton Group has won its 
High Court battle with the 
Inland Revenue ova its 
controversial share option 
| scheme. This means that the 
scheme will continue to have 
Revenue approval for tax 
purposes. 

The Revenue challenged the 
; Burton scheme because of the 
i flexibility of the targets it set 
! its senior managers. The Rev¬ 
enue told the court that it 
objected to any provision 
which enabled the company to 
! impose a task or vary an 
existing task after the option 
had been granted. 

Burton argued its scheme 
would become a lottery if it 
had to set targets three years in 
advance. 


Master 
and pupil 

A one-time lecturer and one of 
his students wiD be reunited at 
Cresvale, the Hays Wharf 
market-maker in equity-re¬ 
lated securities — best known 
for Japanese warrants and 
convertibles — when Kevin 
Connolly joins the firm on 
Monday. Connolly, aged 41, 
has resigned as head of quanti¬ 
tative resea r ch at James Capel 
—in 1988 he set up its options, 
futures and warrants depart¬ 
ment in Sydney, Australia — 
to become bead of futures and 
options sales and trading at 
Cresvale. He will be rubbing 
shoulders with George Phil¬ 
ips, aged 25, to whom he 
taught econometrics and fore¬ 
casting at the City of London 
Polytechnic, in Mooigate. 
Connolly and Philips worked 
together at Capeis, where they 
earned a reputation for being 
workaholics, often working in 
30-hour shifts to follow the 
Japanese market. The ap¬ 
pointment of Connolly, who 
has no fewer than three de¬ 
grees and a PhD - his thesis 
was a “multi-variate study of 
the distribution of commodity 
futures prices with a view to 
constructing portfolio trading 
rules" — win mean Crsvale’s 
first move into the futures and 
options market The firm is 
also diversifying into fund 
management with Lester 
Fetch, from Target Invest¬ 
ment Management becoming 
the founding manag in g direc¬ 
tor of Cresvale International 
Asset Management Although 
Cresvale refuses to pass com¬ 
ment market sources con- 
dude that the launch of a war¬ 
rant fund cannot be for away. 

Carol Leonard 


ASC set to 
provoke 
storm on 
goodwill 

By Graham Searjeant 

The Accounting Standards 
Committee is set to unleash a 
further storm in the pro¬ 
fession, and among finance 
directors, this morning when 
it issues its revised proposals 
on the treatment of goodwill 
on acquisitions in company 

halani* qheyts 

In conjunction with a sec¬ 
ond exposure draft on mergers 
and acquisitions, it isexperied 
to require acquiring com¬ 
panies to write off goodwill in 

equal annual instalm ents from 

profits, usually ova 20 years. 

Most companies at present 
use the option of writing the 
whole of acquired goodwill — 
the excess of purchase price 
over balance sheet value — 
immediately against reserves, 
so that it has no effect on 
reported profits. 

Earlier drafts led to outright 
opposition from some pro¬ 
fessional accountants and also 
from big acquisitive com¬ 
panies. But Mr Michael 
Renshall, the ASC Chair man, 
said that immediate write-ofis 
could deplete balance sheets in 
a ridiculous way. 

Thus far, only companies 
with insufficient reserves have 
usually adopted the method of 
writing goodwill off against 
profits. 

If ASC changes the rules, it 
would bring British practice in 
line with the United States. 

Hie revised draft is ex¬ 
pected to retreat from outright 
opposition to inc o rporating 
the value of acquired brands 
in balance sheets as a separate 
item from goodwill, but would 
require brand values to be 
written off in the same way. 


Profits are 
pnmped up 
at Reebok 

The Pump, the latest craze in 
sports shoes, is helping to 
restore the fortunes of Reebok 
InternationaL 

Reebok, 31.8 pa cent 
owned by Britain’s Portland 
Industries, reports a massive 
recovery in pro fi t s in the 
Christinas quarter, from $6.72 
million to just under $35 
million (£20.8 million), top¬ 
ping the previous best fourth 
quarta, 1987. 

It hoists profits for the year 
to December 31 from $137 
million to $175 million. 

Pre-tax profits, in sterling 
terms, rise from £129.7 mil¬ 
lion to £177.6 million, of 
which £34.2 million is attri¬ 
butable to Pentland after tax. 

Analysts predict that Pent- 
land will turn in 1989 pre-tax 
profits of about £70 million, 
up from £58.7 million. 




COMMENT David Brewerlon 


A great many leaves 
on the SeaCon line 


W atting for the fine print of Sea 
Containers* proposed deal with 
Temple Holdings is not unlike 
waiting for the 9-43 train from Brent¬ 
wood to Liverpool Street: there seem an 
awful lot of leaves on the line. 

Wherever and whenever Sea Con¬ 
tainers’ James Sherwood pats a deal 
together there are bound to be nervous 
onlookers, but some of them are being 
reduced to wrecks by the long delays in 
fixing contracts for the sale of the 
container rental and Sealink Perry 
businesses for about Si billion. 

As yet another deadline passed in 
New York yesterday, doubts left the Sea 
Containers share price languishing at 
$5916. Although this was a couple of 
dollars higher than Tuesday’s dose, in 
line with other oversold “situation 
stocks,” it was still for below the 
benchmark $70 against which Sherwood 
seems to have set his reputation. 

The $1 billion deal with Temple, if it 
is still a deal, was arrived at nearty three 
weeks ago as the stunning dimax to the 
takeover bid which began in London on 
May 26 last year when Temple offered 
$824 million for the entire Sealink 
empire. Sherwood’s empire is in no 
great financial shape, but despite the 
siege which has been laid by Temple 
(which consists of Tipbook from Britain 
and Stena from Sweden), he has 
managed to outsmart and defeat the 
consortium at nearly every turn. 

Had he been obliged to play under 


Takeover Pand rules, he would have 
found the Houdini act more difficult to 
pull off The Panel would have heard the 
chains rattling loqg before he emerged 
from the sack. 

We have to accept, until we hear 
otherwise, that the deals will go ahead 
and that Sherwood will deliver what be 
has promised to his own shareholders. 
Details of the recapitalization plan have 
yet to emerge, but with a billion dollars 
of Temple money in his pocket, 
Sherwood ought to be able to mix a 
Manhattan cocktail potent enough to 
suit the most sophisticated tastes. 

Even so, there are hurdles still to be 
cleared, including shareholders ap¬ 
proval, and before Stena is able to hoist 
its own flag on the old Sealink British 
ferries, a year will probably have 
elapsed. 

A year has similarly elapsed between 
the moment when the Tiphook board 
decided that Sea Containers* containers 
would look nice with a Tiphook label on 
them and the time when they actually 

pliang r harufa , 

Tiphook’s involvement with the bid 
brought to an end a convincing period 
of outperfbrmance for Tiphook shares, 
and the directors, when they are sure 
they have a watertight deal with Sea 
Containers, will have to concentrate a 
deal of effort in persuading investors 
that they have not overpaid for a huge 
inflexible asset at the wrong point in the 
trade cyde. 


Discos head for centre stage 


J ohn Wakeham, the Energy Secretary, 
is winning some grudjpng com¬ 
pliments from the electricity industry 
for the way he is pushing through the 
intractable obstacles to electricity 
privatization one by one — albeit at the 
expense of most of the original principles. 

But time is still running short. On the 
informal timetable being developed, the 
12 distribution companies (or discos) will 
be sold in November, with National 
Power and PowerGen following together 
in February. 

The two integrated Scottish boards 
(even more heavily depleted than Nat¬ 
ional Power by the loss of nuclear 
stations) would probably finish the 
process in the summer of 1991. 

Perhaps the most rapid change, how- 
ever, has been in the price targets for 
selling the industry, which could now be 
as low as £10 billion. Despite the 
elimination of nuclear power, which had 
acquired an almost negative stock market 
value, the likely sale price of the two main 
generating companies has been falling 
There are a number of causes. The 
structure of the supply contracts appears 
to have favoured the discos rather than 
the generators. The Government is 
anxious to avoid any further real price 
increases in advance of privatization 
after the two-year rise of 15 pa cent 
above inflation. This was to pay for a 


massive investment programme which 
has now magically disappeared, in part 
because the switch to replacement gas 
turbine stations has cut the desired 
margin of spare capacity. 

It will also be impossible for the 
Government to claim that there will be 
genuine and increasing competition with¬ 
out equally raising the apparent risk to 
investors — especially in National Pow¬ 
er’s initial 50 per cent share of the market. 

Finally, growth prospects may be 
unexciting since outsiders such as IQ, 
which (dan to generate for themselves, 
are expected to account for nearly all the 
increased generating capacity. 

The high returns on capital employed 
that will be required by the private sector 
may therefore have to be achieved by 
writing down the assets of the two 
generators. Mr Wakeham will not want to 
take this too far, however, since that 
would make it even harder for new 
entrants to compete. National Power and 
PowerGen therefore have a strong vested 
interest in writing off as much as posable 
and thereby reducing their sale price. 
Depending on which way that debate 
goes, the two together might end up being 
sold for £4 billion or even less. 

This will make the discos — which 
might collectively fetch £5.5 to £6 billion, 
the centrepiece of the privatization rather 
than the overture. 



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THE TIMES THURSDAY FEBRUARY I 1990 


BUSINESS AND FINANCE 


WALL STREFT 


STOCK MARKET 


WORLD MARKETS 


Sew York (Setter) - US 
20.5 points to 
ffirr.74 eariy t rading. 


( 77 ?-^ early trading. 
g^ S.SUppOTt from fo minp 
[ “^ PHces, traders said. 


y^Uc that the Chicago pur- 
cnasujg managers’ report for 
might reveal some 
m the economy was 
linked lo bonds* strength. 

: J*L£**’ *** re!*** showed 

actjvrt '/ was stronger than 

■ ntMay close 


peculated, which reversed the 
advance in bond prices. 

“Bonds are helping the 
stocks,” said Mr Larry 
Wachiel, analyst at Prude o- 
tiaJ-Bacbe Securities. “The 
Dow was poised to bounce. 
The question is what does it 
do for an encore?” The early 
advance felled to dispd scep¬ 
ticism about the market’s 
potential for a sustained rise. 


BT firmer as American 
investors call its number -jsss S£*£S£ 


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85% 6514 Menu Kara 

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88V 04V Marsh Melon 

49* 40% Merlin Mar 

K 23% Meeeo 
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37% 36% Maytag 

39% 39% MCA 

35% - 35% McOnIDoug 
82V 80% McDonalds 

29% McGrmMtt 
88% MCI Com 
53% Meed 

49% 49% MadtruMo 

74* 75% IMMta 

24* 23% MOCk 

26* 28% Med Lynch 

46* 45% MMIM 

46 45% MoUl 

37% 07% Monsanto 

42* 42 M—a 

85% 64% Morgan 

50% 50V Motorola 

32% 31% NttUedcol 

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Dow Cham 63* 65% Norton 

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Pfizer 
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Price 

Primaries 

Pub Sarvtoa 

Quaker Oats 

Ralston Pur 

Rqdan 

Raytheon 

Reebok 

Roadway 

Rocftwa* 

Rohm He— 

Royal Dutch 

Rubbermaid 

RynktaMD 

Safeco 

Salomon 

Sam Fe Pac 

Sara Lea 

Schecorp 

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Seagram 

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Syntex 

Sysco 

Tandem 

Tandy 

Tele-conan 

Teledyne 

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Texaco 

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Unteys 

Unocal 

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UST 
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32% 32% 

33% 33 

21* 21* 

131* 131V 

34% 34 

27% 26% 

50V 46* 

35% 35% 

37% 37* _ 

1J Lister falls 
II £499,000 
11 into the red 

25% 25% 

*** f™ Lister, the textiles company 
33 * 32 % based in Bradford, has lapsed 
xP* art into losses of £499,000 in the 
31 % 31 % six months to September after 
41 % 40 % pre-tax profits of £852,000 last 
Is5 time. 

71% 7iv Turnover fell from £19.5 
so* sox million to £17.5 million. This 
Mx «% ^ blamed on a serious reduo 
57* • 56* tion in knitwear and house- 
iiQv io 9 * hold business. 

54* 53 * The interim dividend stays 
at Ip, on a loss per share of 
3.1p compared with 4.16p 
earnings last year. 

Profits double 

i 4 a Profits at AJ Worthington 

1 24 ao (Holdings), the sewing thread 

2 mtiafc maker and knitwear importer. 
LiSga* more than doubled from 
; 4 - £99,000 to £217,000 in the six 
J £ & months to end-September de- 
■ - - spite lower turnover of £1.92 
i 2 3 million (£2.01 million). Eps 
i 4 * 5 are 1.9pon 9.61 million shares 
i io f l in issue, compared with 1.7p, 

* 21 - on 5 million shares, in 1988. 
j Z Z There is no interim dividend 
s so in ( none )- The shares climbed 2p | 
i w » lo43p. 

|“,jj Prism warning 

‘ *°* Prism Leisure Corporation, 
r *" 1 * the record, tapes and com- 
5 4 e puter games distributor, has 
7 io 12 issued a warning of static fuli- 
^ *** year profits after problems in 
J § I expanding its middle-of-the- 
i 1316* road music into the American 
and European markets. In- 
‘ 2 % 5 terim profits to September 

* as - dropped almost a third to 
l g ® £228,000 despite sales up 52 
o so ioo per cent at £4.7 million. The 
**»•*• dividend is held at 1.5p. 

Oceana rallies 

The Oceana Consolidated 
Company, the financial ser¬ 
vices and in vestment group, is 
back in the black at half time 
with a £62,000 profit 
(£214,000 loss) in the six 
months to end-September. 
Total revenue leapt from 
£309,000 to £3.4 million, after 
£2.97 million of commisions 
and fees. Eps are 0-59p (2.15p 
loss). There is no dividend. 

RCO cleans up 

RCO Holdings, the cleaning 
contractor, lifted profits 43.5 
percent to£2.88 million in the 
year to end-September, on 
turnover up 33 per cent at 
£29.9 million. Eps rise 42.5 
per cent to I7.23p and the 
final dividend is 5.4p (4p), 
making 8.1p (6p) for the year. 

Cashmere deal 

Dawson International, the 
knitwear group, has signed a 
10-year agreement with China 
for a continuous supply of top 
quality cashmere. Its shares 
were unchanged at 216p^ 

Moorfield up 

Moorfield Estates, the north of 
England property developer, 
lifted profits 42 per cent to 
£1.9 million in the year to 
October. A final dividend of 
2.5Sp makes 3.75p (1.575p). 

Guy von Cramer 

We have been asked to state 
that Mr Guy von Cramer was 
at no time a director, share¬ 
holder or employee of Barlow 
Clowes Investments. This cor¬ 
rects a report in 7*Ae Times on 
January 29. 


uJL American investors have tak- 
jj, en a shine to British Telecom 
* and have been busily chasing 
*>30 the share price sharply higher. 
0038 More than 18 million shares 
were traded as the twice rose 
S* 6 p to 301 p. That is the 
equivalent of adding 2.25 
ss points to the FT-SE 100 index. 

One. leading New York 
securities house is known to 
on have bought at least lOmillion 
_ shares in the form of Ameri- 
| 7 * can Depository Receipts a- 
2 i head of third-quarter figures, 
due next week, which are 
42% expected to reveal a 10 per 
sk cent increase in pre-tax 
gg profits. 

39 * There was also talk in the 
market that BT was planning 
heavy job cuts and reducing 
49 % its spending programme by 
HI* £600 million a year. Bnt BT 
es* said: “We spent £2.4 billion 
3 s% last year and are likely to 
spend nearer £3 billion this 
74 % year. We have no plans for a 
a,% reduction." 

_ Last year BT matte a num- 
i 7 % ber of presentations to Ameri- 
37 can investors in an attempt to 
*** increase its profile in the US 
42* after several large acqui- 
74% sitions. 

The rest of the equity 
|i» market recovered from a cau- 
34% tious start to end on a high 
^ note helped by an encouraging 
21 % start to trading on Wall Street. 
2 ? The FT-SE 100 index closed 
15.3 higher at 2,337.3. Turn- 
48 over of 572 million shares was 
§|£ boosted by an overnight two 
as* way programme trade carried 
344* out by BZW. the broker, 
amounting to 157 million 
$7% shares, 

3 ? The narrower FT index of 


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Scottish & Newcastle rose 
4p to 334p, after 337p. It looks 
as if Elders IXL is dose to 
placing its 23 per cent stake. 
Word is it will be broken up 
between various institutions. 

A number of broken have 
placed bids for the stock with 


downturn in profits for the 
financial year just about to get 


at £13.98, after £14.15. Union 
Assurances de Paris has been 
raising money to make ac¬ 
quisitions. It owns 13 per cent 
of Sun Life, raising hopes that 
it might choose to bid for the 
rest. 

Last week UAP’s name was 
being linked with Commercial 
Union, 2p firmer at 499p. Sun 
Alliance, 6p better at 325p, 
has bought a 13 percent stake 
in CU and a friendly merger 
cannot be ruled out. 

Selective support also 
boosted the other insurance 
composites with General Ac¬ 
cident jumping i7p to £11.49 
on revived talk of 
stakebuilding by the Italian 
financial services group ■ 


• Frankfurt (AP-Dow Jones). 
— The DAX index dosed at 
1,822.78, up 9.88 points, but 
down from the day's peak of 
1,83136. Investors actively 

bid up prices, cheered by Sov¬ 
iet statements on the possibi¬ 
lity of Gentian reunification. 

• Tokyo - The Nikkei inde x 
dosed 26.72 points down at 
37,188.95 after moving in a 
narrow range in quiet trading 
as the majority of investors 
remained on the sidelines. 

• Sydney — The All-Ordin¬ 


aries index dropped 18.8 
points to 1,677.0 as a rising 
Australian dollar and weak¬ 
ness on offshore markets kept 
buyers on the sidel i n es. 

• Hong Kong — Shares 
dumped in continued dull 
trading. The Hang Seng index 
fell 9.20 points to 2,751.60, 
while the broader index lost 
7.72 to 1,602.40. 

• Singapore — Share prices 
dosed mixed with the Straits 
Times industrial index felling 
3.13 points to 1,515.01. 


WORLD MARKET INDICES 


under way. They are sticking' Generali. Rises were also re- 
with their original estimate of corded in Guardian Royal 


£180 million for the year just 
ended bat have lopped £25 
million from their estimate of 
£205 million for 1991. 

They reckon the group will 
find it hard going in ail the 


The City is mystified by ADT*s involvement with BAA, down Ip 
at 398p, where ft holds 8 per ceot. The golden daw blocks 
unwanted bids and prevents anyone bolding more than 15 per 
cent. Mr Michael Ashcroft, ADT chairman, may want to chal¬ 
lenge the Government and is writing to his own shareholders 
next week explaining his motives for such a large investment. 


tious start to end on a high Elders. Elders is expected to 
note helped by an encouraging make a derision soon before 
start to trading on Wall Street, buying Grand Metropolitan's 
The FT-SE 100 index closed brewing business. GrandMet 
15.3 higher at 2,337.3. Turn- was unchanged at 617p. 
over of 572 million shares was Sears, the Selfridges and 
boosted by an overnight two Sax one stores group, came 
way programme trade carried within a whisker of its low, 
out by BZW. the broker, falling 3.5p to 99p after a 
amounting to 157 million sharp downgrading of profits 
shares. by UBS Phillips & Drew, the 

The narrower FT index of stockbroker. By the close 
top 30 shares added 11 at' more than 17 milli on shares 
1,864. But government securi- had been traded, 
ties spent another cautious p&D’s analysts expect a 


areas it is involved in from 
mail order to retailing, foot¬ 
wear and housebuilding, and 
gjve a warning that there is 
little scope for profits' growth. 

"The group is going to find 
it tough to make any 
progress,” said P&D. 

Last week Sears announced 
a radical reorganization of its 
footwear business. Bid spec¬ 
ulation continued to drive 
Son Life, the life assurance 
operator, sharply higher with 
the price finishing 25p better 


Exchange. 4p to 2S7p, and ! 
Royal Insurance, 4p to 530p. 

Revived break-up bid hopes 
lifted Standard Chartered 8p 
to 603p, while Barclays Bank 
rose 9p to 576p on the news it 
is to extend opening hours. 
National Westminster Bank 
advanced 6p to 3S0p and 
Midland Bank 4p to 388p. But 
Lloyds Bank fell 2p to 294p. 

Rolls-Royce hardened lp to 
!78p after announcing its 
third big contract in little 
more Than a week. 

WH Smith ‘A' fell 4p to 
3l7p after a slide in pre-tax 
profits at the half-way stage 
from £41.8 million to £35.1 
million. 

Cray Electronics fell 4p to 
61 p after announcing a pre-tax 
loss of £1.35 . 

Laing Properties lost some 
of its speculative froth as the 
price boiled over, falling 21p 
to 574p after some words of 
caution in Tempos 

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16.0 

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THE TIMES THURSDAY FEBRUARY 11990 


THE DOMINION COLLAPSE 


Downfall of a firm with many faces 


Dominion International has had many claims 
to fame. Now the spotlight is firmly trained 
on its failure. Martin Waller charts its decline 


A few yean ago. Dominion 
was best known among inves¬ 
tors for two things: its former 

c h a irman and l eading Tight, 

Mr Max Lewinsohn. Had the 
longest hair in the City, and 
the company used to offer 
cheap funerals to its 


In the City itself; however. 
Dominion has always had 
other claims to feme, among 
them the rapidity with which 
it changed its financial advis- 
era and a whiff of doubt which 
Ins always hung over the firm. 

Mr Lewinsohn’s high pro¬ 
file, however, attracted a raft 

of smaller shareholders drawn 
by the explosive earnings 
growth he was managing m 
the early years. 

“Many people in the City 
ftSt he was too dever for 
them,** one early insider rec¬ 
ollects. “When I looked at the 
&are register, it was all small 
shareholders who were temp¬ 
ted in because it was a go-go 
stock. There were no big 
institutions in there. 

“The institutions couldn’t 
™im head or tail of the 
strategy of the company—nor 
didfiiey trust the quality of its 
earnings.” 

The somewhat morbid 
shareholders’ perk ended in 
February, 1988, when the 
Dundee Crematorium, Mr 
Lewinsohn’s base into which 
he moved in the mid-197Qs, 
was sold to Great Southern, 
tile funerals group, far £1.4 
milliCHL Many believe the real 
decline in Dominion’s for¬ 
tunes started around then. 

Dominion has another 
claim to feme now: it Is one o£ 
so far, only a handful of 
quoted companies to have 
been pushed into collapse 
during the current downturn. 
The appointment of Price 
Waterhouse as administrator 
last month effectively put a 
cap on frantic a tt emp ts at a 
rescue by the new manage¬ 


ment and groups of share¬ 
holders. 

What is clear is that at its 
suspension price last Septem¬ 
ber^—way below its share price 
peak — the company was 
valued at £36 million, against 
I ppny of more than £100 

minimi. Shareholders, there¬ 
fore, will not see any of their 
money back. 

Mr Lewinsohn took bis 
company into a wide range of 
sectors in search of 
stability. Until about 1984 it 
was focused primarily on fi¬ 
nance, property and house¬ 
building and afi. Received 
wisdom from the company 
itself was that any sub st antial 
purchases elsewhere would 
upset the balance. But about 
this time Mr Lewinsohn 
changed his tune. 

41 Institutions 
couldn’t make 
head or tail of. 
the company’s 
strategy—nor 
did they trust 
the quality of its 
earnings 9 

The first move was to pay 
S3 milKo n, or £2.1 nrilHnn 
then, for 25 per cent oflntex, a 
Bermuda-based company set 
up in 1981 to create the 
worid’s first fully-automated 
financial futures exchange. It 
was the first of a number of 
diversifications that were to 
go horribly wrong. 

In September, 1986, it paid 
$27 miOiosi, or £182 million, 
for Transnational of foe US, 
taking it into the risky area of 
computer leasing. 

Summer of the next year 
was enlivened by a bid ap¬ 
proach which come to noth¬ 
ing. Later that year it put up 


for safe its 59 per cent of 
Southwest Resources, the 
mining group it floated in 
1980, taking fr oat of that area 
altogether. At that time its 
biggest business was US oO 
and gas exploration and 

production. 

It was around then that the 
company’s public profile 
began to change: Never foe 
stock for widows or orphans, 
Do minio n was beginning to 
be seen as a littfe too exerting 
for its own good. 

Mr Roy and Mr Don 
Richardson, the West Mid¬ 
lands property developers, 
and Lord Barnett, the former 
Labour Cabinet m in ister , en¬ 
tered the scene within a couple 
of months of each other, hue 
in 1987, but it was the two- 
stage purchase early the next 
year of Film Finances which 
brought another pair of broth¬ 
ers to the group and fed to the 
battles which resulted in Mr 
Lewinsohn’s departure: 

Mr Rupert Galliers-Pratt 
and Mr Nigel Cayzer were 
well-known CSty figures, foe 
latter having taken his moth¬ 
er's name. MrGaDiers-Pratt is 
chairman of Harvey A 
Thompson, the quoted pawn¬ 
broker, and Mr Cayzer heads 
Allied Insurance Brokers. 

Him Finances came to the 
gro u p with its own problems. 
Its business was risky even by 
Dominion’s standards, in¬ 
volving the provision of in¬ 
surance against cost overruns 
It arrived with a heavy 
exposure to what was to 
become one of the decade’s 
w orst flops, the fantasy The 
Adventures of Baton Mxato- 
hausau According to Mr 
Galliers-Pratt, foe film M 
been over budget within a 
week of entering production in 
September, 1987. 

The year 1988 saw warnings 
from Dominion over the ef¬ 
fects of felling oil prices, a 
weak dollar and low savings of 
personal finance plans. Laing 



**»«**• 



Spanish connection: Don 

ACnrickshank, its broker and 
financial adviser at the tune, 
continued to be optimistic 
about the company, forecast¬ 
ing pre-tax. profits of £10 
million for tire 1988-89 finan¬ 
cial year. In the event, barely 
half that sum was achieved. 

A ginger group pot together 
by the two sets ofbrofoers and 
other investors began to put 
pressure on Mr Lewinsohn 
towards the end of 1988. Mr 
Lewinsohn aDd Lord Barnett, 
then deputy chairman, swap¬ 
ped rotes, and the peer was 
deputed to investigate the 
situation. 

At the same time, laing A 


Beach, one rf Che company's holiday developments 


Grvrickshank, was dismissed 
in favour of Williams de Broe. 

In an abrupt votte face, Mr 
Lewinsohn last July an¬ 
nounced plans to sell most of 
Film Finances and move into 
the US mortgage market The 
final shoot-out came at the 
annual meeting a month later, 
resulting in his departure just 
before a vote on his removal 

Mr Lewinsohn is adamant 
that the two deals he had 
planned would have pot the 
company bade on its feet, a 
view not shared by the present 
management, fed by Mr Cart 
Openshaw, the chairman. 

The shares were suspended 


in September, amid talks of a 
refinancing by way of a rights 
issue. Mr Openshaw admitted 
defeat in January, and Price 
Waterhouse was appointed 
administrator. At the tune of 
the suspension, it was dear 
that substantial writedowns 
would have to be made against 
foe value of the group’s assets 
as carried in the balance sheet 
at the March 31 1989 year- 
end. 

The administrators’ job 
now is to work out the value of 
those assets, arrange for their 
sale and ensure that the right 
amounts of money return to 
the right lenders. 


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Max Lewinsohn: high profile attracted small shareholders 


Twists and turns on a downhill road Finer points of group’s assets profile 


Lata 1970a — Max Lewinsohn takas 
control of Dundee Crematorium, name 
changed to Dundonfen. 

December 1979 — buys housebuBder 
AJgrey Developments for £3J25 milBon. 
May 1980 - plans to open three tin, 
tungsten and saver mines in Cornwall 
June 1980 — South West Consolidated 
Minerals floated off, 75 per cent retained. 
August 1982 — change of name to 
Dorrenkxi and restroctureng. 

February 1983- £&2mfflon rights issue. 
June 1984-buys 25 per cent of Wax. 
August 1984 — buys Anglo-International 
Investment Trost for £14 mflfion. sub¬ 
sequently liquidated. 

September 1988—buys Transnational for 
$2/ mflfeon. 

JiUy 1987 - bkf approach “at dose to 
134p.” Talks subsequently terminated. 
October1987 - puts up for sale Its 50 per 
cent of Southwest Resources (the re¬ 
named South Wbst Consolidated). 
November 1987 - departure of four 
•rectors, aB with long associations with 
Max Lewinsohn. Lord Barnett becomes 
deputy chairman. 

January 1988 - The Richardsons acquire 


February 1988 - Dundee Crematorium 
sold for £1.4 mflDon to Great Southern 
Group, breaking Dominion’s long Units 
with funeral secvicea- 
FMmiafy 1988—purchase of 24 per cent 
of Rm Finances for £4.7 mifion as 
continuing switch from energy to feudal 
services. 

April 1988 — purchase of rest of Film 
Finances, valuing entire group aft £24.6 
mfflion and bringing on to Dominion board 
Rupert Gafflers-Pratt and Nigel Cayzer. 
Profits warning. 

August 1988 — reduces stake in South¬ 
west Resources from 43 per cent to 31 per 
cent 

Decembe r 1988 - interim loss of 
£389,000 at Southwest 
December 1988—Lewinsohn steps down 
as chairman in favour of Lord Barnett, 
becoming deputy chairman. 

May 1969 - sale of Guardian Investment 
Hdkflngs, Hong Kong-based property 
company, for £&8 mfflion to Southwest 
Resources. But flop of Southwest rights 
issue, underwritten by Dominion, pushes 
its stake back up to 45 per cent 


July 1999 — plans to sefl 80 per cent of 
F9m Finances to Hs management for £25 
mWon end buy York Associates, a New 
York mortgage company, for £29 mMoa 
Deal never completed. Pre-tax profits for 
full year £544 mflBon, previous year's 
restated from £6.6 mflflon to £4.87 million 
on adoption of ’‘more conservative 


August1089- Lewinsohn quits as deputy 
chairman ahead of shareholder action at 
annual meeting. Sells more than half his 
stake, it is later revealed. 

August 1989 — Lewinsohn quits as 
chairman of Southwest 
September 1989 - shares in Dominion 
suspended at 52p, valuing company at 
£3&5 maUon, 

September 1989 - fatal dividend payment 
of 3p, already announced, halted after 
review showing financial position "sub- 
stantiaRy worse than thought" 

November 1989 — Lord Barnett and John 
Clarice, the non-executive directors, quit 
the board. 

January 1990 - Price Waterhouse called 
in as administrator. Assets shortfaB esti¬ 
mated at £40 ntifion. 


Dominion has two profitable 
and readily saleable assets, 
Transnational, the US com¬ 
puter peripherals leasing com¬ 
pany, and foe Film Finances 
business. Although the 
appearance of the latter on the 
1988-89 balance sheet as a 
subsidiary held for sale at £25 
million excited some surprise 
among City analysts, the com¬ 
pany is the second biggest in 
its chosen field in foe world. 

The same cannot be said for 
some other parts of the group 
Dominion has about 150 sepa¬ 
rate subsidiaries, bat around 
100 are based in Gibraltar and 
are merely used under Spanish 
law for the purchase of the 
company’s flats on the Costa 
dd SoL Others are dormant 
The chief assets outside Him 
Finance a nd Transnational 
are: 


• A 7 percent stake in USM- 
quoted Southwest Resources, 
worthiest short of £1 million 
at its current price. 

• Dominion Credit and Fi¬ 
nance, a car leasing company 
where Bank of Boston is the 
main lender. Its borrowings of 
more than £30 million, se¬ 
cured against the loan port¬ 
folio, could eventually be 
satisfied by a safe. The admin¬ 
istrators hoc are KPMG Peat 
Marwick McLintock, put in 
by the bank, who are believed 
to be talking to several in¬ 
terested parties. 

• Property in Texas which 
has already been foe subject of 
write-offs of about £6.S 
million. 

• A stake of about 27 per cent 
in latex, foe financial futures 
exchange group, in the books 
at£6 mtilion but unlikely to be 


worth £1 million. 

• Berwin La Roche, a mort¬ 
gage and pension broker 
which is thought to be dose to 
disposaL 

• Dominion Financial Man¬ 
agement, which provides 
computer and administrative 
services inside the group and 
to third parties. The company 
is profitable. 

• Dominion Investment 
M anagement, not in admin¬ 
istration, which writes per¬ 
sonal equity plans, has 
continued to trade profitably 
and retained its Fimbra 
membership, and is the sub¬ 
ject of an attempted manage¬ 
ment buyout 

• The financial services busi¬ 
ness, providing personal 
loans, part of Sarnia Mutual 
Supply, which also holds the 
Spanish development The 


loan book should have no 
difficulty finding a buyer. 

• The Spanish properties. 
Dominion Beach, where the 
first phase is complete and 
largely sold and foe second, 
started,' and Dominion 
Heights, not yet started. Build¬ 
ing has stopped on rite and 
some contractors are owed 
money. Guernsey-based Sar¬ 
nia is in Mqmdation.lt is 
hoped the Spanish site can be 
sold as a going concern. 

The administrator. Hire 
Waterhouse, is unable at this 
eariy stage to give any break¬ 
down of foe value of foe 
assets. But sources dose to foe 
company have suggested they 
are unlikely to total much 
more than £60 million, leav¬ 
ing a £40 utiOion shortfall 
against outstanding 
borrowings. 


Queen’s Bench Divisional Court 


Law Report February 1 1989 


Court of Appeal 


Cautious approach by justices urged Striking out for want of prosecution 


Regina v Chichester Justices, 
Ex parte C hic he ster District 
Council 

Before Lord Justice 'Neill and 
Mr Justice Rock 
[Judgment January 30] 

It was unwise for justices to stop 
committal proceedings for a 
reason which turned upon the 
correct interpretation of a sec- 
tun in legislation such as the 
town and country planning 
legislation, unless it was abun¬ 
dantly dear that the interpreta¬ 
tion advanced on behalf of the 
defendant was correct, and that 
advanced on behalf of the 
prosecution was wrong. 

If the point was arguable then 
h was a better course for the 
justices to commit the defen¬ 
dant for trial and to leave such 
matters of statutory interpreta¬ 
tion to be resolved by the crown 
court judge with the assistance 
of foil argument from counsel. 

The Queen's Bench Di¬ 
visional Court so held in a 
reserved judgment when grant¬ 
ing an application for judicial 
review to quash a decision of 
Chichester Justices, on Novem¬ 
ber 30, 1988, not to commit Mr 
George Knight to the crown 
court for trial for allegedly 
foiling to comply with enforce¬ 
ment notices issued by Chich¬ 
ester District Council 
concerning unauthorized dev¬ 
elopment on land. 

The Town and Country Plan¬ 
ning Act 1971 provides by 
section 91 “(1) IC after the 
service of a copy of an enforce¬ 
ment notice, planning per¬ 
mission is granted for the 
retention on land of buildings 
... to winch ihc enforcement 
notice relates, the enforcement 
notice shall cease to have effect 
in so for as it requires steps to be 
taken for the demolition or 
alteration of those buildings.. .** 

Mr Andrew Kelly for the 
council: Mr Clive Newton for 
the justices. 

MR JUSTICE ROCH said 
that Mr Knight owned a form 
and erected on there a two- 
storey brick buUding. On July 
24,1986 he was served with as 
enforcement notice requiring 
him to demolish the building to 
ground leveL Mr Knight ap¬ 
pealed against that notice to the 
secretary of stale. 


Prior to the appeal being 
beard, Mr Knight constructed a 
single-storey extension to that 
building. The council issued a 
second enforcement notice 
dated April 6,1987 in respect of 
that extension, requiring demo¬ 
lition to ground level. Mr 
Knight appealed against that 
notice: 

The appeals against both no¬ 
tices were heard together by an 
inspector appointed by the sec¬ 
retary of state and the result was 
that the inspector varied the 
enforcement notices to require 
in the case of the first notice, 
that the first floor should be 
demolished together with the 
external staircase and that a new 
flat roof should be provided. 

With regard u> foe extension 
the requirements were that the 
external staircase should be 
removed and tire building re¬ 
roofed. The variations were 
subject to submission of 
schemes to the local p l a nn ing 
authority and various other 
requirements. 

Mr Knight did not comply 
with the enforcement notices as 
amended but submitted two 
planning applications to the 
local planning authority. 

The first was tor a single- 
storey feed store and conversion 
of external staircases to WCs 
and offices and was entitled 
“Removal of first floor and 
conversion of external stair¬ 
cases**. That planning applica¬ 
tion -was granted by the council 

on February 16, 1988. 

The second planning applica¬ 
tion was for the •‘Building’* to be 
converted to to a dwelling. That 
application was refused on 
March 7. 2988. 

On Febnianr 3, 1988 Mr 
Knight had refused to confirm 
that the first pl an n in g applica¬ 
tion was to be taken as a 
submission of the schemes re¬ 
quired by the inspector in the 
amended enforcement notices. 

Tire applicants instituted 
criminal proceedings against Mr 
Knight on July 8, 1988 relying 
on thestaieofalEurson the land 
then. Mr Knight elected logo for 
trial and at the end of the local 
planning authority's evidence 
the justices di sm issed the 
proceedings. 

Two matters had to be ob¬ 
served in construing section 
92(1) of foe 1971 Act. Fast, foe 


definition of building included 
“any pan of a building**, (see 
section 290). 

Second, Parliament did not 
provide, where planning per¬ 
mission was granted for the 
retention on land of buildings, to 
which an enforcement notice 
related after foe service of the 
enforcenrenmi notice, that that 
enforcement notice should cease 
to have effect altogether. 

Thus Parliament had in¬ 
tended rtf* parts of buildings 
and not merely entire buildings 
should be affected by enforce¬ 
ment notices and by section 
9201. 

■ What then was the effect of 
section 92(1)? Enforcement no¬ 
tices ceased to have effect in so 
for as they required steps to be 
taken for the demolition or 
alteration of those buildings. 
What was meant by foe phrase 
-those buildings**'. tt> which 
buildings did the phrase refer? 

In his Lordship’s judgment 
-those buildings!" had to refer to 
the building for the retention or 
which p lanning permission had 
been granted subsequent to foe 
service of the enforcement 
notice. 

The justices should have 
looked at the buildings for 
which planning permission was 
granted on February 16, 1988. 


To the extent of those buildings, 
the enforcement notice was to 
cease to have effect. 

The parts of foe buildings 
which were already on the land 
without permission which were 
detailed cm those documents 
were to be retained. To that 
extent the. enforcement notice 
ceased to have effect 

That result not only gave the 
section iis ordinary and natural 
meaning but accorded with 
common sense. There was no 
need to demolish the original 
building constructed without 
planning permission in its 
entirety. 

The budding constructed by 
Mr Knight had to be altered and 
parts of it removed so that it 
became the building permitted 
by the planning consent which 
had been granted by the enforce¬ 
ment notice: 

His Lordship would order the 
case to go back to foe justices 
with a direction foal they con¬ 
tinue the bearing of the commit¬ 
tal proceedings applying the 
interpretation of section 92(1) of 
the 1971 Act which he bad 
detailed. 

Lord Justice NdD concurred. 

Solicitors: Sharpe Pritchard 
for Mr P. R. Brown, Chichester. 
Charles Hill & Co, Chichester. 


Barclays Bank pic v Miller 
and Another; Frank, third 
party 

Before Lord Donaldson of 
Lymington, Master of the Rolls, 
Lord Justice Buticr-SIoss and 
Lord Justice Stoughton 
(Judgment January IS] 

Although the court would not 
ordinarily accede to an applica¬ 
tion to dismiss an action for 
want of prosecution if the 
limitation period had not ex¬ 
pired, where it was open to 
serious argument whether foe 
claim would be time-barred, the 
court would dismiss the action, 
leaving the claimant to institute 
fresh proceedings if he chose to 
do so. 

The Court of Appeal so stated 
dismissing an appeal' by the 
defendants, Thomas and Pam¬ 
ela Miller, from Mr Justice 
McKinnon who had affirmed 
the decision of Master Topley 
striking out for want of prosecu¬ 
tion third-party proceedings 
brought by the defendants 
against Mr Cohn Frank in 
respect of an guarantee by which 
Mr Frank was allegedly obliged 
to indemnify them against any 
liability they might have to the 
plaintiff bank. 

Mr Swart Isaacs for the 
defendants; Mr Michael Malone 
for the third party. 


LORD JUSTICE 

STAUGHTON, having referred 
to foe history of the matter, said 
that it was apparent from Mr 
Justice McKinnon's judgment 
that there was no issue before 
him but that the defendants hod 
been guilty of inordinate and 
inexcusable delay and that there 
bad been prejudice to foe third 
party. 

Thus the sole issue before the 
judge was whether the claim in 
foe third-pony proceedings was 
time-barred. 

If it were not, then in the 
ordinary way there would be no 
point in dismissing it for want of 
prosecution because fresh 
proceedings could be started 
promptly; see Birkctt v James 
<11978] AC 297J. 

. The position would have been 
different if (he claim were 
dismissed for contumelious 
conduct, or an abuse of foe 
process of the coutl In such a 
case it would by no means 
follow that a claimant could 
immediately start the proceed¬ 
ings again: sec The Supreme 
Court Practice 1988 paragraph 
25/1/7. 

The dispute before the judge 
was whether foe claim made by 
the defendants was solely a 
contractual claim or whether it 
also induded a claim to 
contribution under the Civil 


Deciding whether a highway is unnecessary 


RamMera Association v Kent 
County Cound] 

Before Lord Justice Woolf and 
Mr Justice Fill 
{Judgment January 29] 

The requirements imposed on 
justices by section 116 ( 6 } of the 
Highways Act 1980 when they 
were considering whether they 
should stop up a highway were 
nramtetory. Therefore, the jus¬ 
tices bad no power to dispense 
with those requirements. 

The Qnttn't Bench _ Di¬ 
visional Court so held in a 
reserved judgment when allow¬ 
ing an appeal by way of case 
staled by the Ramblers Associ¬ 
ation against a decision of the 
Folkestone Justices on March 
10,1989 to stop up certain para 
of a highway over land belong¬ 


ing to the Ministry of Defence 
on the ground that they were 
unnecessary within the meaning 
of section 116 of the 1980 Act. 

Section 116 of foe Highways 
Act 1980 provides; ** (1) Subject 
to the provisions of this section, 
if it a ppe a rs to a magistrates* 
court — that a highway ... fa) 
is unnecessary — the court may 
by order authorize it to be 
stopped up or, as foe case may 
be, to be diverted.** 

Mr George Laurence for the 
Ramblers Association; Mr Si¬ 
mon Blackford for Kent County 
Council; Mr Eian Caws for tire 
Ministry of Defence. 

LORD JUSTICE WOOLF 
said that in d e cidi ng if a 
highway was unnecessary so 
that it could be stopped up. 


justices should consider to 
whom the highway was 
unnecessary. 

If it was for foe benefit of the 
public, then foe justices should 
concern themselves with that 
feet They should ask them¬ 
selves for what purpose the 
highway was unne c essary. It 
should be unnecessary for foe 
purposes for which the public 
were using it, for example, in 
order to get to a certain place or 
for recreational purposes. 

Where there was evidence 
that foe way was currently in 
use. it would be prima facie 
difficult for justices to come to 
the view that foe way was 
unnecessary unless the public 
was going to be provided with 
an alternative. 

That alternative should be 


protected as to duration and 
suitable for the purposes for 
which the public had been using 
the existing way. If n did that, 
foe justices could find that the 
way was unnecessary. 

If the justices found that the 
loss of the existing way could 
render other ways more 
crowded, then that was a nutter 
which they should take into 
account when considering if the 
way was unnecessary. 

His Lordship hoped that 
those guidelines would assist 
justices when considering the 
term “unnecessary" in section 
116 of foe 1980 ACL 
Mr Justice Pin agreed. 
Solicitors: Peariman. Graz in 
A Co. Leeds; Mr Georg* W, 
Swift. Maidstone, Treasury 
Solicitor. 


Liability (Contribution) Act 
1978. 

If it were a contractual claim, 
a legal executive then represent¬ 
ing the defendants conceded 
that the cause of action had 
accrued in July 1981. The only 
alternative was that it was a 
claim under foe 1978 Act, in 
which case foe cause of action 
would have accrued in January 
1988 

The judge rejected any claim 
under the 1978 Act in foe third 
party notice, and held that there 
was only a contractual claim, 
which following foe concession, 
was time-barred. 

Mr Isaacs in foe Court of 
Appeal, with leave, bad with¬ 
drawn that concession. He had 
further submitted that there 
were four causes of action open 
w the defendants: namely, an 
implied indemnity by operation 
of law, an implied term of the 
agreement between the partis, 
the right of contribution in 
equity between co-guarantors, 
and a right to contribution 
under foe 197g Act 
, Ail such causes of action were, 

in Mr Isaacs' submission, 
pleaded in foe thiid-partv 
notice. 

If that were right the Court of 
Appeal would have to embark 
on a substantial inquiry on an 
application to dismiss for want 
of prosecution, not only as to 
what causes of action were 
available to the defendants, but 
also when foe appropriate date 
lor foe accrual of foe cause of 
action hod been in each case, 
and whether each of those 
causes of action could be said to 
be comprehended in the third- 
party notice. 

Referring to Birkrn v James. 
lus Lordship considered the 
Lord Diplock (at 
fP 3 - 0 - 3 ?!) where he had said 
that m foe ordinary way there 
was no point in dismissing an 
action f 0r want of prosecution if 

SpirecL rtal,0n PCriod 1101 

The only result would be that 
^ could issue a fresh 

far hastening the 
d ctermination of foe 

PTOWttlroBS lhcy wouto 

2ES?T»r dc,aycd foe 

pl y P. ff jyp sfortina anew. 

LonJ Diplock said that th-tf 


would be foe ordinary result. He 
also expressly exempted cases 
where an action was dismissed 
for contumelious conduct. 

In his Lordship’s view the 
House of Lords was not then 
considering a case where h was 
open to doubt and serious 
argument as to whether the 
cause of action wonld be time- 
barred if a fiesta writ were 
issued. 

In such a case it might well be 
foal foe interests of justice woe 
best served by dismissing foe 
action for want of prosecution 
leaving ft to the plaintiff due 
cbosc, to start a fresh action- 

The alternative was that mas¬ 
ters, judges on appeal, and even 
foe Court of Appeal, might 
become embroiled on such an 
application in long and elabo¬ 
rate arguments as to whether 
some future action, if brought, 
would be time-barred. • 

There was much to be said fix' 

the view that masters should not 

have that task forced upon them 
when the problem mig ht never 
arise, and if ft did, could perhaps 
be more conveniently consid¬ 
ered in another way. . . 

With regard to the present 
action, there were undoubtedly 
issues which might give rise to 
difficulty. The question -whether 
section 1 ofthe 1978 Act applied 
to a liiaitn for contribution 
between co-sureties was one on 
which the textbooks appeared to 
take different views. 

Tbe effect of section 7 of the 
Act might also give rise to 
difficulty. Those were quite 
apart from the question the 
judge decided as to what cause 
of action was included in tbe 
third-party notice. 

Accordingly, his Lo r dship 
considered flat justice would be 

better served by disnrissiQg.foe 
action for want of prosecution- 

His Lordship proposed fool foe 
appeal would be dismissed, 
malting it plain fom he ex¬ 
pressed no vfew on the pofe* j« 
which the judge had decided. 

The Master of the Rails snA 
Lord Justice Botler-Slos# 


Solicitors; Emsley COSto** 
L e e ds; Pearhnan Grazm 4 
Leeds. 




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Now, why on earth would anyone 

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when Mrs T. will give you as much as 

67%? - Every year. 


L ET’S GET THINGS in per- 
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Say you have £3,000. As you 
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B UT DON’T DESPAIR - you see, 
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M ind YOU, it’s sad how lazy 
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t a minute we’ll get to the first 
L at question, but in the 
e let’s answer the second part 
ief example: 

l0 w that if you make Capital 
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o £2,000 a yearextra. Now, if 
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ted States, for example, you don’t 
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* * * * * 



THE TIMES THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1 1990 


STOCK EXCHANGE PRICES 


Modest gains 


BUSINESS AND FINANCE 


ACCOUNT DAYSi Dealings began January 29. Dealings end February 9. §Contango day February 12. Settlement day February 19, 

§Forward bargains are permitted on two previous business days. 


Prices recorded are at market dose. Cha 
Where one price is quoted, it is a rafckfle 


ated on the previous clay’s dose, but adjustments era made when a stock is ex-dhridendL 
, yields and pries esmtags ratio* ere based on mfchlto prices, (as) denotes Alpha Stocks. 
(VOLUMES PAGE 24) 




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153 M BMdnPU 
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183 78 CWMK 
101 Ml Colw 
T 1 H 373 Good* Bp 
m 08 CopMaPLC 
371 257 Court 


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minus signs 


Weekly Dividend 


Please melee a note of your daily lotah 
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Saturday’s newspaper. 


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164 94 Em* 138 14Q 41 

277 88 FMnMMB 70 73 +1 

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3a 223 Ron Hi 
650 625 Hantaan Mon 
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Stagfr'eye view at the Qmoi ESnbefe n conference cadre: “Meetings and fane* beaks are 


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demand is usually far 
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cnt”. The “concrete 

new job spec As the blod^ is being increasingly spumed 

for venues such as zoos, safari 
chairman so aptly put it, it parks, museums and boats. 

But venue-hunters do not have 
was my pigeon: I had to get the choice that the statistics suggest. 


itrighe. 

my sleeve and / soon had everything fixed, including a few 
'extras' with the chairman very much in mind 

“It’s your pigeon "said the chairman 
‘Must get it right 

One tacts a doty pigeon shoot and oat on the range 
l thought a Safe encouragement might not gp amiss. Just as 
he was about to call / had ^ , 


my chance: Tour pigeon 

chairman, I believe”. 

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a 

right time? Too earfy yet to tell, t* 
but the conference went well : 
and the chairman is set on a 


MLJWS 


There are more than 3,000 con¬ 
ference venues in the UK, but when 
faci li ti es are matched to r eq ui re- 
meats, the choice can narrow 
greatly. The for space can 

limit prospects even further. 

“We have had to phone 90 
venues to find c on fe ren ce space in 
London,” says Heather Rands, of 
Conference line, a venue-booking 
agency. “Hus also happens some- 
tunes in the Midlands, particularly 
if there's something on at the 
National Exhibition Centre (NEC) 
in Birmingham ” 

Paul Swan, of Spectrum Com¬ 
munications, a conference produc¬ 
tion company and consultancy, 
says: “Someone once told me there 
were 35,000 hotels in the UK and 
that one could aigue that they are all 
venues because they each have a 
place where at least two people can 
meet 

" M ost co nfere nce* take place in 


hotels. The main groups and hotel- 
iwarW^Tng phaint pUQTSUe the con¬ 
ference market with great vigour. 
And because location is always the 
number one factor, you wDl find 
that the really successful conference 
hotels are easily accessible. The Post 
House hotels, for example, are dose 
to motorways and have good car 
parks. 

“Probably a third of aH UK 
take in the Mid¬ 
lands b eca u s e that is easiest for 
most people to get to. After kxsdion, 
the denml ii fc rfaciHtiei md th an 
service.” 

After the hotels, business is 
shared b et we e n purpose-built con¬ 
ference centres, which attract the 
biggest events, umveisities, munici¬ 
pal halls such as assembly rooms, 
stately homes like Leeds Castle, and 
the more iwixmi venues. 

Swan says national companies 
that are members of international 
groups have tended to hold separate 
conferences, but. oossiblv mhiiiwI 
on by thoughts of 1992, are joining 
forces with their European counter¬ 
parts to nm a big-bodget event for a 
large number ofpeopie at a d iffere n t 
Location each year. 

For companies without the over¬ 
seas connection, “away” con¬ 
ferences are deriming in popularity 


Wherever it is, the 
vital thing will be 
to make sure the 
event is effective 

as an increasing number of firms 
take a more hard-headed approach 
to the amount of time they are pre¬ 
pared to see staff “off the job”, says 
David Hacked, of the Marketing 
Organization, a conference and 
incentive travel group. 

Stephen Kaye, of the Conference 
Centre agency, has noted a trend 
over the past year or two to avoid 
London because it has become 
“extremely expensive". Many com¬ 
panies are moving up the Ml to 
Northampton, Leicester and Not¬ 
tingham, and down the M4 towards 
Swindon, Bath and Bristol. 

Swan says that conferences are 
getting shorter. “For example, for 
product launches it is now common 
for prese n t a tions and hospitality to 
be confined to half-days, with two 
different audiences on the same 
day.” Audience participation is 
growing, in some cases supported by 
electronic-response systems in 


which delegates are provided with 
key to indicate responses to 
questions from the platform and the 
response is instantly converted into 
computer graphic repr es en tations 
on video screens. 

In the corporate sector, the trend 
towards more businesslike, harder- 
woriring and more participative 
events is confirmed by Chris 
Edwards, business manager of the 
Queen Elizab eth D Conference 
Centre, Westminster. “Meetings 
and lunch breaks are shorter," be 
says. “There is an increasing ten¬ 
dency to spend less time in the main 
plenary session with everyone to¬ 
gether. Instead, meetings tend to 
break up into small working 
groups.” 


R esearch conducted by the 
centre shows that most 
meetings now last a day 
or less. “What seems to 
be happening is that 
businesses are holding more but 
shorter meetings and dying to 
ensure they get foe most out of 
them. 

“Conferences are becoming more 
sophisticated. The lecturer with his 
overhead projector is passing into 
history, arid even fairly modest in¬ 
ternal company meetings are now 


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Jersey holiday next year. So, it would seem, 1 did get it right 

Send for details la: Coj Jet e m* Director 
Jersey Conference Btowa. Weighbridge. St Heitor, Jersey, CJ. Tit 0534 78000. 

jersey 

A break, with convention 


NEC leads the way 

Expansion heralds a strong future for B ritish venues 


making use of professional produc¬ 
tion companies, with hi-tech audio¬ 
visual and video presentations and 
elaborate stage sets to sustain 
interest and punch home the mess¬ 
age. Ninety-five per cent of meet¬ 
ings now make use of audio-visual 
support.” 

“The i ncreasing demand for 
quality is having a significant 
influence on developments in the 
conference industry,” Swan says. 
“In the past, the balk of our work 
was concerned with helping clients 
communicate with their safes force, 
dealers and distributors, but we are 
now more often communicating 
with other employees as welL” 

Hacked sees companies extend¬ 
ing their range of conference and 
travel applications — and putting 
more effort into original and partici¬ 
patory leisure activities dazing the 
conference period. 

The European challenge is 
acknowledged by Kaye. “As Europe 
becomes more aooesaMe with foe 
dawn of1992and the opening of the 
Channel Tunnel, the competition 
among venues will intensify," he 
says. “The future of UK venues 
lows uncertain unless they can 
ensure that their product is better 
than the best in Europe. Only in this 
way will they maintain their lead.” 


TBJHATH. 


T he turning point for the 
UK exhibition industry 
was the opening of the 
National Exhibition Centre in 
Birmingham in 1976. 

The centre doubled Brit¬ 
ain’s exhibition capacity and, 
for the first ti™*-, gave it a 
venue with facilities equal to 
those of its Continental 
competitors. 

Nevertheless, the NEC is 


sons why 


smaller than its principal West 
German, Italian and French 
competitors 

Despite initial sce p t i cism 
about its location, foe centre, 
established with £40 million 
from the City of Birmingham, 
successfully rimlbny H Lon¬ 
don for a share of the top 
sector of the exhibitions mar¬ 
ket, undoubtedly aided by its 
. road, rail and air links with the 



have got 


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t rest of Britain and overseas, 
i fit its first year, the centre 
hosted 32 exhibitions; last 
t year it was home to more than 
, 100. It now attracts the main 
l industrial fairs and about four 
, million viators each year. 

A new halls complex was 
i opened last year and the 
- NEC’s 125,000 sq yd capacity 
i is planned to increase to 
i 200,000 by the end of the 

Complementing the NEC is 
a major development in the 
conference sector. Britain’s 
first purpose-built convention 
facility - the International 
Convention Centre —issched¬ 
uled to open in Broad Street, 
Birmingham, in April next 
year. 

In west London, Earls Court 
—which bolds the number two 
spot among UK exhibition 
venues — is undergoing a big 
expansion with the dev¬ 
elopment of Earls Court 2. Its 
associated Olympia facility 
has also increased its capacity 
in recent years. 

Earls Court and Olympia 
comprise the largest privately- 
owned exhibition centre in foe 
UK. 

By early next year, Earls 
Court 2 would add a further 
17,000 sq yds of prime 
exhibition space to foe cen¬ 
tre’s existing 42,000 sq yds, 
said Rush Dray, Earls Court 
Hall director. 

Despite the dominant pos¬ 
ition of foe three major ven¬ 
ues, there has been a signi¬ 
ficant growth of regional exhi¬ 
bition centres, particularly 
with the renovation ofG-Mex 
! in Manchester and foe open¬ 
ing of foe new purpose-built 
Scottish Exhibition and Con¬ 
ference Centre in Glasgow. 





at the 
Heathrow Penta Hotel 


Wa don’t have to give excuses when 
video facilities foil, because ours 
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advanced, fail-safe video theatre 
in Europe. 

■ Our York Video Theatre’s 35 
foot screen can be used for 
projection of 35mm and 16mm film 
as well as video, and up to 15 
synchronised slide projectors. 

■ Each of the 262 seats has a 
personal TV monitor Captions or 
special videos can be sent from the 
control room to individual screens. 
H The facilities are interactive so 


that delegates, via their own 
microphones, can speak to each 
other or to the speaker 

■ Tbu can make your own video 
presentation in our in-house video 
studio. 

■ Simultaneous translations can 
be transmitted to each of foe 
delegates at their own seat in the 
theatre from individual translation 
booths. 

For a translation of our technical 
innovations into plain English, can 
Jackie Woodnrffe or Jane Preston 
on 01-897 6383. 


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DON’T MISS OUT! 
VISIT 

INTERNATIONAL 
CONFEX ’90 

6-8 FEBRUARY, 1990 
OLYMPIA 2, LONDON 


For those responsible for 

* International Congresses * Exhibition Stands 

* Conferences and Seminars * Trade Exhibitions 

Incentive Trayel * Product launches/Road Shows 

* Corporate Travel * Corporate Meetings 

A visit to International Confex can save you weeks of 
research and planning. Over 330 international exhibitors 
representing 800 suppliers of meeting and incentive 
travel venues and destinations; conference and exhibi¬ 
tion venues, facilities and services will be there to meet 
you. 

DON’T MISS IT! 

Call the TICKET HOTLINE on 01-727 1929 NOW 
or simply bring a business card with you and register on the day 

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J g«ny Sate is emphatfr 
^eopte have always spoken 
about conferences and exhi¬ 
bitions, but we like to pot it 
the other way round: exhibit- 
tons and conferences." The director 
of the Exhibition Industry Feder¬ 
ation is underlining the importance 
of the £1 billion British exhibitions 
industry. 

“There is now, of c o u r se; a d o s e 
retetwnship between the two. Few 

exhibitions will not have some form 
of conference alnngg>fe and, vice 
versa, conferences and seminars 
wDl develop an exhibition dc- 
,xnenL’ > 

Sale's organization provides the 
collective voice for the B ritish 
exhibiti (ms industry. “In Britain, 
-e xhibi tions are made: up of three 
different strands — organizers, con¬ 
tractors and venue owners — 
whereas in West Germany, for 
example, it is all one.** 


: it udieace participation is growug, in some cases with electronic-response systems fat which key pads are esed to indicate responses to questions from the platform 


More tell and sell 


Sale does not see Britain miring 
on the European exhibition giants 
after 1992. “With our venue capac¬ 
ity and the size of exhibition halls 
we have, we’ll continue to ran 
highly specialized shows,” he says. 

“We have, however, set up initia¬ 
tives with Brussels and are taking a 
lead in trying to get a common 
‘denomination’ in Europe, whereby 
if yon exhibit in, say, London or 
Munich, the definitions , nomencla¬ 
ture and standards are all of one 
flk.** 

One of the federation's main 
aims has been to prove the effective¬ 
ness of exhibitions as a marketing 
medium. “We don’t really know yet 


As the industry 
grows, conferences 
and exhibitions move 
closer in concept 


about the effect of exhibitions on 
pu rchasing decisions,” Sale says. 
“Proper research and audited fig- 
ures were needed, and, for the first 
time, we have them. Soon, we will 
K»gm pntring OUT finding *: into 

shape; Our research will dem¬ 
onstrate the benefits.” 


In the past two years, the industry 
has been buoyant and has 
expanded at a great rate; “We are 
optimistic about expansion pros* 
pects in the industry for the next 
five years,” Sale says. 

The federation’s preliminary re¬ 
search work into the British 
exhibitions industry has shown that 
in 1988, 9.5 million visitors passed 
through the turnstiles of 651 ex¬ 
hibitions in 46 venues with a 
minimum capacity of 2390 sq yds. 
They generated a total expenditure 
of nearly £1 billion. In 1984, there 
had been 467 exhibitions at 26 
venues. 

Further expansion, however, is 


limited by the number and size of 
venues the dominant postion 
of LoTvl o n Birmingham. 

According to Sale, the NEC is the 
country's “prize venue” for size and 
modern firiUtiw hut London is still 
seen as the ma giy-ft for exhibitions. 

“The business is fairly seasonal 
—you have troughs and peaks,” Sale 
says. “Everyone wants to exhibit at 
the same times of the year. There is, 
however, plenty of scope. We want 
to wijiw medi um-size *rfitiwrinT| $ 

more international, th us turning 
them into bigger ones, and the 
specialized ones into more speci¬ 
alized ones.” 

The picture is one of dev¬ 
elopment of tried and tested venues 
rather than the building of new 
ones, for which the costs would be 
prohibitive. Sale says: “Wembley is 
extending, the Arena in London’s 
Docklands has come on «»r « » n and 

Rri ghtftn k thinking nf M fianriing .** 


A berdeen last year found 
fteetf host to 2,000 
Quakers for its ndver- 
sity’s biggest —and quietest — 
summer conference. Paul 
Boness, Aberdeen Univer¬ 
sity’s conference marketing 
officer, says: “Tkis year prom¬ 
ises to be noisier; one booking 
tachdes more thi 700 Ca- 
nuUan pipers and dimmers.** 
Britain has three « «i 
groups of suppliers of confer 
encefedBties: hotels, purpose- 
built centres such as Loudon’s 
Queen Elizabeth n Centre — 
asdmmnidss. 

“Our story is one of growth 
and devetopaent,” says Car¬ 
ole Fonnen, secretary of the 
British Universities Accom¬ 
modation Consor tiu m (Base), 
the universities' 19-year-old 
coflectfre marketing organfza- 
tion. The oni v n shi es score 
ever .their hotel rivals to three 


Campus 

lessons 


ways. They have huge, well- 
eqnipped, purpose-buffi lec¬ 
ture halls; they occupy larger 
sites, often in parkland 
settings with recreational and 
proper study facilities and 
they are cheaper. 

The Base “24-hour tariff” 
for hmefa, tea, coffee, meeting 
ream, dinner, bed and break¬ 
fast ranges from £22 a person 
at Queen Mazy College, 
Loudon, to £5&28 at Chnrchfll 
College; Cambridge. A three- 
star hotel would charge be¬ 
tween £80 and £90 for toe 
same package. Delegates can 

meet, eat and sleep at the same 


budding or on toe same site. 
However, conference centres 
and hotels are available aB 
year round, which is a facility 
tost so far only 20 of Base's 54 
members can provide. 

Aberd een is toe most north¬ 
erly muversity in Britain, bat 
this has not bees a disad¬ 
vantage. Tt Is balanced by the 
one attraction the others do 
not have: weYe an the doorstep 
of the Highlands,** Boness 
MJS. 

Meeting the rhaltonge to 
public spending cuts has been 
the fprtnr liriitnil ftp 

nohei mMp** be co mi ng a force 
in the conference business. 
The market leader, Warwick 
U ni versity, last year earned 
£34 nJns from conferences 
— 5J per cent of its Income. 

• Arne; Box 600, Umhentf 
Park, Nottmgkam NG7 3RD 
(0603504571). 


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• A new booklet listing 160 exhibitions in the amalgamation of previous DTI and OTA 
UK this year has boon produced by the listings and has been published as a result of 
Department of Trade and Industry, foe British an initiative by foe E1F. Copies are ayaBable 
Tourist Authority and the Exhibition Industry from the SF, Sheen Lane Hoi»a. 254Tipper 
Federation. Trade Fairs m Britain, which RichmondRoadWestLondOfiSW148AG(01- 
detaBs exhibitions in 34 industry sectors, ban 878 9130) or from BTA offices abroad. 


Confex 90 is the 
show for everyone 

M ore than 4,000 vis- ganging international meet- 
itors have registered lags of thousands of people to 
already for Inter- organizers of small con- 


Penny Hanson: it’s show time 


M ore than 4,000 vis¬ 
itors have registered 
already for Inter¬ 
national Confex 90, which will 
open at Olympia next Tues¬ 
day for three days. 

Tbe event will be the largest 
meetings, incentive travel, ex¬ 
hibitions nod conferences 
show to date, with 325 stands 
representing 812 exhibitions. 
Last year Confex, now in its 
seventh year, attracted 5,267 
visitors; this year, its or¬ 
ganizer, Blenheim Queens- 
dak, expects about 8,000. Of 
those attending the 1989 
show, 31 per cent controlled 
budgets of more than £50,000 
and 19 per cent were au¬ 
thorized to spend more than 
£500,000. 

Penny Hanson, joint 
managing director of Blen¬ 
heim Queensdale, says: 
“International Confex 90 will 
have something for every 
buyer, from executives or¬ 


ganizing international meet¬ 
ings of thousands of people to 
org anizer s of «m»n con¬ 
ferences; from the manager 
organizing travel incentives to 

the whiWtinn wanH manag er 
responsible for his trade show 

stand.” 

Forty countries will be 
represented, promoting incen¬ 
tive travel packages, meeting 
and conference facilities, and 
60 stands will be operated by 
big hotel chains. 

Timed to coi ncide with In¬ 
ternational Confex 90 is tire 
second International Sympo¬ 
sium on Conference Safety, at 
the Queen FHimhgth Q Con¬ 
ference Centre, Westminster, 
next Monday and Tuesday. 

The symposium is being 
held under the auspices of the 
Association Internationale des 
Palais de Congres. leading 
authorities will deal with con¬ 
ference security, fire hazards, 
safety and food. 





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that’s distinctive, away from it all. yet so easy to reach. Hotels 
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allows. VAT free benefits for all to enjoy. And costs — including 
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Guernsey. Channel Islands. Tel: 0481 26611 Fax: 0481 21246. 


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YOU COULD KNOW THE 
VENUE FOR YOUR 
NEXT CONFERENCE. 


Call First Place, Best Western’s conference venue find¬ 
ing service, and within 24 hours we’ll send you a short 
list of venues tailored to your budget and requirements free 
of charge. 

With nearly 200 Best Western hotels in the UK, no-one 
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from small meetings to full scale conferences. 

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The walls move. The seats move. 
The doors move. 

(Once, we even felt the earth move.) 


That was the day we had the 
performing elephants in. 

But its briefcases, not trunks, that 
most of our visitors pack 

They arrive here (by car, train, 
heBcopter and even by the boatload) on 
business because 'their companies realise 
the SECC is exactly what we intended 
it to be even before the first trick 


was laid: 


state-of-the-art sound and lighting system and 
audio-visual control room, can hold 2000 

delegates-spefibound. 

(Incidentally, the Centre as a whole 
has been known to hold 10.000 delegates) 

But if there*. only 200 of you, does 
that mean rows of empty seats? No, it means 
no empty seats Because everything m HaB 1 
{as in afl five ot our halisj is, as our technocrats 
put it ‘removable; retractable and 


Arguably the most flexible, technically demountable’. 


advanced exhibition and conference Scottish 
. _ Exhibition*- 

centre m Europe Conference 

(The readers of Conference Centres 
and Exhibitions International do not entirely 
agee: they voted the SECC Best Exhibition 
Centre in toe Hforid.) 

Well, is it? 

The 5 million or so visitors weVe 
welcomed to date, seem to think sa In fact for 
a new venue; our occupancy levels are a lot 
higher than the industry average 

The big attraction is flexibility. 

Vfe said the waBs move; theseats move 

and toe doors move. W? wererft joking. 

Our architects plained it that way. 

Their brief was to design that rarest of 

rare venues; one that win allow you to hold a 

conference in conjunction with a related 
exhibition, or host concerts or spectator 

events. 

At the risk ol penumtang you, train 
with facts and figures you can equally well read 
in our glossy brochure here are a few 

asmptesofwtBtweman: 

0uf principal conference auditorium 
(ttle .reasmaSeelynamed 'Hall I T** _ 


And to mount an exhibition you donlt 
• * iave *° rnoun * an e *Pedition round 
Britain to find enough space. 

Take our Hall 4, with 10.065m 2 . Or our 
Hafl 5 with 4J05IY1 2 . StrU not satisfied? Then 
take both. Well simply s&de away the wall that 
divides them. 

What? \bu want more? lake aS five 
interlinked halls and have an incredible 
19.000m 2 aU to yourself. 

Can you stand a few more statistics? 
Like 19 breakout/conference rooms. 
18 organisers offices. 7 car paries. 5 bars. 

2 restaurants. (Thafs enough olatislks-Ed) 


After toe event, were equally 
accommodating. 

The gfttering new Forum Hotel has 
270 four-star bedrooms and 15 suites. And for 
those who play as hard as they work, a leisure 
complex with swimming pool, jacuzzi, 
gymnasium and sauna. 

(The Forum Hotel is one mkuitebwak 
away Within one hourfi drive are another 7,000 
hotel rooms) 

Finally; access. Beat this: 12 minutes 
sway is Qasgow Airport with 25 daily flights to 
London. VlfeVe our own raflway station, helipad 
and quayside with direct access to the sea And 
beReve it or not, toerefe only one set ol traffic 
lights between toe SECC and London! 

Why have we gone to such lengths 
(550 words so far) to sell you the SECC? 

Simply because we dorft just want you 
to come once, we want you to keep coming. 

And we know that conference, 
exhibition, concert and events organisers have 
one thing in common. 

Like elephants, they have very long 


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THE TIMES THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1 1990 


01-481 4481 


LA 


Senior Secretary 

Mayfair • £14,000 p.a. plus benefits 

This Euaipean Finance company requires a first class 
secretary to work tor the head of its Operations Department. 

The ideal candidate will have recent experience in an 
accounting firm with an Interest in accounts work as the 
position also involves working for various members of the 
Accounts Department. Strong administrative capabilities 
with a mature and flexible outlook will enable you to work 
very much on your own initiative- Vou will have a sound 
educational background with typing and shorthand speeds of 
60/100 wpm respectively. An ability to work with computers 
would be an advantage, although not essential. You may on 
occasion be required to work be tore or beyond normal 
working hours. Above all you must bring with you a good 
sense of humour which will be an absolute asser to work in 
this department. 

This company offers excellent benefits and training will 
he given where necessary in the use of our Office Automation 
System. 

COMPANY OPERATES A NO SMOKING POLICY. 

Please respond in the firsr instance to: 

Ms Clare Yard, Select Appointments pic, 28 South Moulton 
Street, LONDON Wl. Telephone: 01-491 8133. 



01-481 


Health Conscious PA 

circa £20,000 package 

Our client is a new and already major force In the UK leisure industry Their pheno¬ 
menal -success is a result of the dynamic and progressive environment created by the 
drive, flair and ambition of their team. They look for independent thinkers who can 
act on rheir own initiative, take early responsibility and really get to know their busi¬ 
ness. Their Corporate Membership division seeks an assertive, gregarious personality 
nhusc- "rganisanonai. prion rising and decision making abilities are equalled by 
excellent secretarial and administrative skills. Your experience has been gained in a 
City environment where working at senior level is second narure. This is not an 
ordinary 9? role; the responsibilities are wide ranging, demanding and extremely 
rewarding. If you can rise to the challenge telephone 01-493 5”S7 to know- more. 


GORDON-YATES 


Rccxuumou Guraukun 1 


News International 
Newspapers Limited 

SUNDAY TIMES 
NEWSDESK SECRETARY 

Aged 23 plus 

Salary: dll2,500 to 14,000 

A Secretary is required to work on the 
NewsDesk of the Sunday Times. Experience in 
a similar environment would be an asset. 

Applicants should have a mature outlook, 
possess good secretarial skills (100/60), and 
have the ability to work under pressure, whilst 
maintaining an excellent telephone manner. 

An excellent benefits package is offered, 
which includes six weeks holiday and J3UPA. 

Applicants should apply in writing only, 
enclosing a CV together with daytime 
telephone number, to 

Mrs B Hemmings 
Recruitment Manager 
News International Newspapers Limited 
PO Box 481, Virginia Street, London El 9BD 


JOHN’ D WOOD 

Vv-.i: CO- 


RESIDENTIAL 

LETTINGS 

Positive and anttmetaade 
PA nseaed to provide 
responsible back up *1 
our hectic but friendly 
Mayfair letting office. 
Keyboard shifts required 
and good telephone 
manner essential. 

P/ease call 
01 491 4311 
26 Curzon Street, , 
W1Y 7AE 


£15k SEC I PA 

friendly tiut offiefem US wmmstal 
bwyws tequm m attwtwte bnQfo 
Dwson ropm Dior Wl attics. A 
oratassmBl jffitude to work ano set 
moovauun s essential The varied 
Dosaon »sc mcJ. raentogn Outre 
and sons daa mut wp iWoroaar 
20001 era ess 
Please call Simla on 
01-935 5372 ! 


If you would like to use your intelligence and orgomsotionol skills to assist tfiis dynamic and 
highly successful consultant with his assignments and think you match the following arterio:- 

• Previous experience or knowledge of fmanciai markets 
9 T level education 

• Liaise with clients on o regular basis 

• Research and coordinate a team 

• Well presented and spoken 

• Fast typing and presentation skills 

... then please call VICTORIA WALL or SARAH WILLIAMS 

to hear more about this varied and rewording position. q 

Begin RecTurmem 7*11 

9 Whitehall London SWI1DD D|(Y|~| O 

Telephone: 01-872 5555 


In-House PR 
£14,000 

Our diem, a large well 
esatriisned comoany wnti an 
exceUert imematwa 
reputation, ts lootaiq lor a 
Secretary/Asstwam in umr 
PR dopartmem. 

You will need a creaovp mmd. 
ntiative and enttiusiasm 
counted with the atumy ro 
keep your sense o' humour in 
a crisis, if you have IS 
months to 2 years experience 
n the PH or advertising world 
you wl) Ind ewsUert 
opportunities to get involved 

m writing press reeases and 

cbem mananemem 
-/SO 21+ 

Media d Rec Cons 
Tel: 01 491 3848 


RECRUITMENT. 


P.A. TO CHAIRMAN 


The Chairman and Buyer of this prestigious Fine 
Wine Merchants requires a personal assistant 
Applicants should possess top secretarial skills (S/H 
and W.P.), fluent French, excellent presentation 
and communication skills. 

A knowledge or interest fn wine is considered i 
desirable though not essential. 

Salary is negotiable a.a.e. 

Please apply in writing 
enclosing tetter and full C.V. to:* 

Mr Graham Chldgey, Laytons Wine Merchants 
Ltd, 20, Midland Road, London NW1 2AD. 


Circa £20,000 Neg. 
Experienced 
Office Manager 

Excellent Secretarial & Wp Skills 
Essential, Computer Background 
Advantageous. 

Please write with full C.V. to: 

Ms Julie Laverf 
E L Computers Ltd 
Glen House 

200-208 Tottenham Court Roadf 
LONDON W1P 9LA 


American Airlines 

require a 

Secretary/Pa 

based al Hounslow 

Thr- (KMiinn wilt prim'd*- wrirurial and administrative support to the 
Finani'iaJ Conindler and hi.- .-mall team of analysts. The Controller and hit 
learn o'«-r>*w the European budget*, spending, headcount and a variety of 
financial rc|wriinp - making this a busy but diverse area to work in. 

Ciindlibt— -hnuld ha»«* rtrrllnu communication skills to enable them lo 
uork vfli at all level*. including: senior management- The position also 
requires an effii-imt ami methodical secretary, with accurate typing and 
P.C. skills - preferably with a knowledge of Parados, Wordstar, Wordo 
and/ or Lulu- 1-2-3 ,-oftwarr packages. 

Bellelli- include Bl PA. pension, luncheon vouchers and eicelleni travel 
benefit*. Salary circa *:I2U(I0 per annum. 

Plea-e -end CV. viih covering letter slating daytime contact number and 
current salary: 

Ruth Bishop 
Personnel Manager 

American Airlines 
Portland House, Slag Place 
London SW1E 5BJ 


ASSISTANT TO SENIOR PARTNER'S SECRETARY 
Required by large firm of Architects in W.l. Good shorthand and 
accurate typing speeds as well as knowledge of word processing is 
essential. 

The work consists of typing general correspondence, speeches and 
invitations to luncheons and receptions, together with faxing, filing and 
occasional reception duties. 

This position is most suitable for an experienced, meticulous and 
mature person returning to work after break. Must be discreet and 
willing to help in all aspects of the Senior Partner’s work. 

This is a permanent position with salary by negotiation. A 4-day week 
(Tuesday-Friday) would be considered. 

Please write to: 

Mrs Ann Hart 
Personnel Administrator 
THE FITZROY ROBINSON PARTNERSHIP 
77 Portland Place, London WIN 4EP 



HIGH FLYER 

£18,000 

Airline Industry seek executive P.A. Secretary 
with short hand and admin skills. Knowledge 
of Dutch an advantage. Car driver essential, 
based at Heathrow. This is a position for the 
career minded only. 

Call Dawn Shorter on 01-493 8346 
First Choice Recruitment 


CHISWICK 

W4 

Young firm of Arrtutfftj are 
setting ratiraKEUc Stem®}/ 
RnrptKmist. 

Onod Kkpfcow manner and 
oipnraiiDaal abrfnv Typing SO 
wprei WPttpcnmrc Plenty 
of scope for mnuKd 
rcanoubilriy. IS inn +. 
CaoMrc C Cm ngm 
fli-wmsp 

(NoilEMriKj. 


£15,000 PA 
+ BONUS ++ 

Three (well trained) directors require an 
office manager to assist in their every day 
tasks. Small friendly office in the heart of 
Mayfair. Varied and interesting workload. 

WordPerfect wordprocessing added 
advantage. Fax your CV today for prompt 
response: 

01-493 1540. 


ADVERTISING 

CONSULTANCY 

Wl. 

Enthusiastic Sw/PA with min. 1 yra rope ri snea of WP far 
a five* young co. Presentable with good telephone manner 
& excellent organisational skills essential. To start a.s.a.p. 
Salay £12,000 plus 5 web holiday. 

(Strictly no agencies) 

Please Contact 
Jenni Rainey 
01-2241366 


SECRETARY/PA 

Salary Circa £ 15,000 

EXPER1ENED ALL ROUND SECRETARY/PA 
NEEDED FOR RESPONSIBLE POSITION IN A 

Small Team of an international 

ORGANISATION. 

Six weeks Holiday, providence Fund, 
please apply to-. 

INTERNATIONAL LEAD & ZINC GROUP, 

58 ST J \MES*S STREET. LONDON SW1.4 ILD. 


r WORK IN LUXURY 

SECRETARY/PA 

24-26 yrs 

Mayfair £14,500+bonus+superb benefits 

Highly successful Property Company need a first dass 
Sec/PA 

if you are competent, seft-mouvated. articulate, with 
e>ceHen: wPsims then tins position will offer you roral 
nvslvemenr on a one-to-one baas wnh a very talented 
young drecTor 

-Telephone M Roberts on 01-637-0145.- 

Roberta Neill 


hvtn-LiruJ JA-iTuirnu-nr 


Albany House. 324 Regent Street. London W1R 5AA 


MONEY! 

£17,000 + BENS 

Tit* CrOTnsn cl ins rerwtrm] frv Comojny is SKtag a Drofcsstonal 
mdivflLjl id ae as r.-s PtranaJ Asuaart You trust tow snoiplh cl 
character tie etjitjrv to Cos *.ir rupn>y c o nwenro) makers berti 
tusmess rx srvra and a rar.nnsn sw« of 100 worn Snormnti. 
E*ceJie-^«'«t.:5ar.c , irstcijiso!iT»?5 Por lurttier cetads 
CALL CLARE BROWN 
01 488 4746 


PA TO DIRECTOR X 2 
TOBACCO DOCK 

£13,000-16,000 + BENEFITS 

Wc art exclusively handling the immediate 
recruitment of 2 senior shorthand secretaries Cor an 
expanding Lloyds Brokers. Both positions require Am¬ 
elia skills - although rusty shorthand will suffice - 
excellent presentation, the ability to prioritise the 
workload when necessary and the organisational flair to 
plan and organise some very hectic schedules for one 
director and his two associates. In addition to a 
worthwhile career move you will be working in a 
delightful area thai offers wine baza, restaurants, great 
shops all within a very comfortable working 
environment. 

fliAia 

CONTACT: KIM FIELD 
New St. Agency, la New Street, London EC2 


SALES OFFICE MANAGER 

George Philin of Reed International require a Sales 
Office Manager 10 work in their ttesi End publishing 
office. Duties include liaison uiih UK sales force and 
designated trade cusuuncrs. Top salary available to nghl 
applicant together with ihc usual fringe benefits 
associated with a large rniernauonal group. 

Pk*asc apply by phone or in writing 10 Onid Rhnera. 
UK Sales and Marketing Director, fcwwge Philip 1 
59 Grosiemr Street. London W1X 9DA. 

Td Q1-493 5841 

GEORGE 

PHILIP 


PA/SECRETARY 

Experienced PA/ team secretary for Director and 
his small specialist team of architects m Coveni 
Garden working on prestigious maior London 
project. Super location, happy office, frequent 
contact with principles in New York. 

Salary c£13.000. 

Phone: Samantha 01*379 0809 


SECRETARY 

Chelsea 

Small private company requires highly motivated 
secretary with good communication and secretarial 
skills to work in their weH-appointed offices. 
Knowledge of WordPerfect preferable, but can train. 
Call 352 2045 today for mere information. 


WONDERFUL 

OPPORTUNITY 

Institute invotvefl tii European issues. Seotfanat based m 
London W5, orgamsmg conferences, crosuenq ouhications. 
imdenaking research and acvtsstg sensr execuives is wcking 
(or an acM itio n a J member for smaa. happy warn Applicants 
ShoiiU be emhusiestic secretaries wen ccog aceuvsnasve and 
numeratn skas. Knowiecge cl Fterch an asset 
Ptemsa tetephone 5T9 4888 betw e en Sam end Spirt. 


ro'ti .s OF K FNSfNGTON 

SreCMLKTS IN FINE MIST%LT.—.in^irs. 

\ ALL ERA AN-C> *1 '“-O'-SIrS 

REQUIRE 

P.A. TO CHAIRMAN 

7HF APPtH! \NT VEFD5TOBS OFSSUBT U|7W 

SOI NP *Ei'PET'iRI 1L SkillS P ur'frk:Vi 

KNOULEPOE OF 1 HlH'vp Ll'-CVWE- .'VrEAcST OF EXPERIENCE 

ofclxssii: r ite*r>i :d?« as ox»>7»i.-e. 

SXL4RV %£Gr.T1-&li 

m xS5 com \a. Helen john«jn on n-w» fw 


rfpj EUROLANGUAGE LTD. 

•Vo MANAGING 
DIRECTOR 


requires Seaetary/P.A. with sh/hand to 
organise his office and daily schedule. Essential 
qualities ore good speeds, W.p. and P.C. 
experience and the abdrty fa thrive under 
pressure. A good command of spoken and 
written French would be o distinct advantage. 
Eurokmguage is the U.K. member of a group of 
French Companies involved in the provision of 
language courses tor students of many 
nationalities. Salary in the region of E12JOQO: 
Applicants with fuH CV to Jessica Corfayn, 
Eurolanguage Ltd., 

Greyhound House, 23/24 George Street, 
Richmond Surrey TW9 1HY. 


YOUNG ADVERTISING AGENCY 
SEEKS MORE THAN 
JUST ANOTHER SECRETARY. 

You can type 60 »pm and take shorthand at SO wpm 
but want more out of life? 

Young advertising agency in South Ken seeks a 
budding PA. You must be chccrtuL Not scared to use 
>our brain. 

W illing to deal with clients and want to get involved in 
all aspects of our work in TV. magazine and newspaper 
advertising. 

Age not as impunam as a good outward-going 
personality. 

Small compaiu bui great prospects working with the 
MD and Creamc Director. 

CALL VICTORIA BARLETT ON 01-351 Mil. 


BANKING AND LEGAL 
CREME 


BE LUCRATIVE, 
BE LEGAL 
BELIEVE ... 
£10.00 PER HOUR 

Maine-Tucker legei secretaries are just 
about the best paid-.because they 
deserve to be. 

If you can type at 60 wpm on an Olivetti 
ETV 260 WP. then believe me, you are 
worth £10 per hour. 

If you have sound legal experience, call, 
Lisa Martin for an interview. ^ 

SO Pall AUI SL Jum't London SWlY JLB Tdcphoac 01-925 054* 


SUPER SECRETARIES 


FASHION PR 

Wl 

Secretary/Assistant required lor fashion 
company Press Office. Close Oxford Circus. 
Good SH/typing. Pleasant telephone manner 
essential. 

Tel: Mrs. de Keyser on 01 487 4888. 



A Valuable 
Commodity 
£ 1 5,000 + generous 1 
benefits | 

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e'Cti.es; *o 

cc-eiop vo-ji n a 

Iasi tidv r>g coirwnv 
Aje 5-25 

City Office 
Tel: 01 726 8491 

! MORTIM ER* 


SECRETARY 

Wiih S.'H and VN P 
experience lor head 
oflicc in Bromici of ,t 
rood group. .VtJurv net;. 
Plcaxc tclcphiiiic J.R 
Owen on 2*h» nUho to 
arrange an inierxieu. 


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I c£12,000 + bonus 

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MtMnarca Lan^uaon noWui 
23* or CUM sun mush o««r 
perron Ptiona xrm on 
01-240 3561 
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CREME I 


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Wc need high 
calibre IBM 
and Appleruae. 
Microsoft word 
.Secretaries 
A.S A.Y. 

Phone Jill on 
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ADvomsme > «m or lowiods 
too ten advertising agencies re¬ 
nowned for ns creative success 
to currently recruiting a 

secretary /assistant Lo work for 

a young, lugniy Uloiled ac- 
coiiol manager. Always oocrol- 
ing in an uHroni position you 
will need excellent communica- 
Uon skills and Have Uie canfl- 
dence lo liaise wim aieus. 
•BliaiUse preseii tan ona and co¬ 
ordinate busy sdtiedules lo ex- 
srang deadlina. Tills mstllon 
involves a Won imi of involve- 
mem and scope for career de- 
vetagmml. 60 wpm typtnu. 
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ary £12.000. Finesse Appoint- 
mams 'Rec Const OiA9g gi75. 

WWW6T A career In the West 
Ena ofTrrtnq personal grawsii 
and financial rewards. Presti¬ 
gious international hanks have 
rraucsiM our assistance in re¬ 
cruiting Orighl. setfmotlvaled 
srereurfe* from 19 to 23 years 
who wish to develop their ca¬ 
ncers in research, on the trading 
floor or wimin man a gement. 
Cxrellem prospects and ban who 
■M tfcagrs offered Please tde- 
nhone DrtKM* HIU an 87S 8B8o 
for further details MacBWn 
Mash west End Financial (Hcc 
Com). 

■WAV west End Art Gallery re¬ 
quires full rime secretary/ Re- 

CCBlkMlIM wiift quod 

susawrllHiR and tygiM 

h nnwieogr of Art nd Mntul 
Pfrow apply in nandsvnting 
with c v lo BOX BB6 

CHARTTY Ad mtntt train r 

£70.000*. Fund raising ns 
necre&urv WP e S/H sMUs tor 
own use Reporting IS VIP 
Hoard Of Trinlm Call Mesa 
Wmn Ol gU7 0570 rec cons 

Cll f confutence b required as 
the Research Ascadanl lo the 
Manaulttq Otrecror of Fautnes 
in ifn-> Inlemauonal Investment 
Utink Ttuv M a rujM-rb oroortu- 
nil* to broooen your seeretanal 
role and al Iasi acmes r your 
own areas ol rrSPomlMlny 
\nu will monllor share moie- 
nnpl, analsse rlnmi portfolio, 
nnrt .Ai>nd and reporl luce on 
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Iv l.wrimmq vour revomsbri 
hits visi mw nave me 
Dexionriv In move from one 
prnfrrt lo another os Uie marker 
dlrlulr. An evening. MUlly 

elsamed emlronmenl wntrh re 
waid, turd work and in mauve 
I nr funner details please call 
Finew Appointments (Rec 
, Omsi Ol W SITS 

PHAMe leaver sees a».y. 
Iff" » Media. roim/TV 
IWai/mm Itntqn dr At 
foretii Garden bureau J-iJ 

MAOUATE sees Always the 
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rrvHirn ,,nd puhinfnno in Ihe 

ar«s. >if iniernafkmai rrlanofis 
Cnntart Insutiiie for Curopeoii 
OetefKe and sifaieqic studies. 
'•-Id O-klen Square. London 
y*lR SAG Ol AV» BUS 
MMSCTINC nooorfiuilty In a 
famous Oft oTyjsivumn for an 
nmmunn eunfldem. young 

reian tr.idy fnr a . if err mdve 
i “"I be llaluiiq with Anver, 
living -Hiench-I. prime,, and or- 
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esperien.e ajihouah mis Mir 
"wrnllal Call Oeb-xah Lee 
Ma-HMI, Nash can. Sees I Re, C 

t-.nv. aunty 

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aria Ida ble. luieiinwnr person 
requited In unirk In .drr-nviy g 
hrnvnttve Minioeablet..rope 
pressure At curate 
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■WWTBACe BENEFIT/ Ranking 
career - loca tion s fbr tnlmia- 
Onral banking Superb poataon 
Btvbw smtxfylng and vartad 
workloaas In prestigious oflicc. 
U you ant ig to a3 mean wim 
shorthand and typing, perhaps 
you are presently with a prop¬ 
erty company, legal nrai or ac- 
enuniBnia ■ step out and nourish 
ta a dynamic new world Please 
contact Debbie HUB on 01-0732 
8889 MacBlaJn NMh WcM End 
FUmnol (Wee Consi. 

w* urgetniv ttsi m red for Media. 
Property A Cosmetics. S/H 
akllb necessary. Negotiable sol 

artes. A«e 2TK56. call Mba sec- 

retaty 01-287 OS7P Rec Com, 

nisi mima sks. An you on 
our books7 coveni Carden Bo- 
rwu 383 7g9fc 

Arcbtiects 4r 
fVrmoneoi & (rmpo- 
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Recruitment CflfwuiLmiv 
OI-73J osaa. 

snooif pa rn PubUshlog Onoor- 

Iimily for a mature person to 
Wn a major pubinning notac 
""ortclng for the Managing Dv 
reew. During w» freouent ao- 
wceslh* position idlers same 
IQ B ecome involved with me 
nubOclty department, handling 

cu«wm slabs 
80/» Salary £ 12.000 -*■ s win 
™i*tiAy- Age unmaterUL can 
CAtTera (Recrutimcnt Mvtmi 
on 01-734 gaoa. _ 

•OCMl-.ruiv hectic and -dlimdat. 
log Our City dtnn of utinmt 
presiwr nreiu a Secretary who 
ran mink an her fen. Prioritise 
Jwr workload and. use her lift, 
ballse and get totally involved 
when organising a team of dy¬ 
namic. on getting executives 
SecreUrLd Is mirdraal - only 
AO- Out you win need last, 
accurate typing, maim y lor 

vow own correspondence, ir 
you are tq-sa v««h M mart one 
year S rkperfencp and would 

like In Com LICK, please rmi 
CMbmah Lre. MacDtalr, Nash 

C.HV SWN *Hfc Cftitti B77 

THCATNICAi. ACfJSTT. 9 mfn* 
boddlnouui station require, 
young bright Secretary lo Kdn 
smalt team. Previous work cx 
prefente mmuty and WP 
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mmir a helm Salary afbimd 

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usohjl. Earty 20r.. EJasM 
Kensmgion. mownq to 
PutiWy. (£10.000 + 
concdssions. 
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Scottish scientists. 
Pearce Wright 
says their new 
observ atory could 
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of the universe 


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B ritish scientists are about 
to take centre stage in a 
unique international ef¬ 
fort to prove the exis¬ 
tence of gravity waves; 
fte so-called ripples in space-time 
by Einstein but which 
yet to be eonvincmgly 
detected. 

The researchers have embuJoed 
on a multi-unUum pound enter¬ 
prise whidi could provide answers 
to some of the most hnfflwig 
questions in astronomy about the 
age of the universe and how the 
first galaxies and stars were 
formed after the Big Bang of 
creation. Several observatories, 
.* finked at points around the world, 
~ areneeded for the experiments. 
Indeed, the new trans-gtotal 
project could resolve growing 
confttston. The flood of discov¬ 
eries by powerful ground-based 
optical ami radar telescopes and 
spacecra ft are introducing more 
perplexing queries rather than 
answers to questions. 

The invention that should re¬ 
solve some of the conundrums isa 
revokitionaiy type of laboratory 
in whidi scientists hope, for the 
first rime, to detect the gravity 
waves that, according to Einstein's 
theory, s w eep silently and unseen 
across space from exploding stan, 
black holes, pulsars ami the con¬ 
vulsions of other celestial bodies.' 

But only a handful erf scientists 
worldwide are working in this 
fidd. Scotland provides one of the 
prime sites, at Tents Muir Forest, 
north of St Andrews in fife, for 
the novel type of observatory 
planned for de t ecti ng gravity 
waves. It will use a new type of 
instrument — a laser detector — 
being pioneered by groups at 
Glasgow University, the Max- 
Planck Institute at Garching in 
West Germany, and the California 
Institute of Technology, Caltech. 
AH have built prototypes. 

Professor James Hough, direc¬ 
tor of the Glasgow team, believes 
the gravity wave instruments will 
give astronomers a new window 
on to the universe. 

The detection of gravity waves 
wiD give new types of information, 
qualitatively different from those 
produced by any other observa¬ 
tion,* 1 he says. 

Among the fundamental dis¬ 
putes that could be settled is the 
argument over the established 
methods astronomers use to mea¬ 
sure distances and occurrences in 
galaxies for beyond ours. Modern 
cosmology uses a measurement of 
red-shift, which is now found to be 
influencBri by other factors, and 
therefore less accurate. 

fiwiMii, the linked gravity wave 
observatories should provide the 
nearest thing to an exact cosmic 
tape measure, or ruler, for the 
direct measurement of distance 
across space. 

But the primary experiment is 
to provide the de fin i t ive test of 


GRAVITY WAVE 


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Einstein’s view of the universe, as 
he described it in his General 
Theory of Relativity that refined 
Newton’s theory of gravity by 
adding time to the other dimen¬ 
sions of space. 

The new gravity wave detectors, 
each costing about £30 million to 
build, wiH depend cm shining laser 
beams along two tubes, each three 
kilometres long. The one proposed 
as a joint Glasgow University/ 
Max Planck project could be 
excavated either in the Scottish 
countryside, near St Andrews, car 
at a site in Bavaria. 

D espite the prediction 
by Hnstein of the exis¬ 
tence of gravity waves, 
the first attempt at 
detection was made 

only 25 years ago. 

The first builder of gravity wave 
detectors was Dr Joseph Weber, at 
the University of Maryland, in the 
United States. His major device 
was a l.S ton cylinder of 
aluminium, hanging from vibra¬ 
tion-proof mountings in a vacuum 
chamber. It was meant to be so 
sensitive that, if a gravity wave 
passed across it, the stress pro¬ 
duced could be picked up 
electronically by the most ddicate 
strain gauges. . 

There were some sensational 


moments that turned out to be 
false alarms, but no conclusive 
evidence of gravity waves. 

More sensitive, metal solid 
detectors were built 20 years ago, 
in Glasgow, based on pioneering 
work by Professor Ronald Drever. 
Again, they foiled to find the 
elusive gravity waves. 

Drever now heads a gravity 
wave team involving Caltech, the 
Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
and Stanford University, 
lifomia, which has plans for 
two observatories: one each on the 
east and west coasts of America. 

Proposals have also been pre¬ 
pared for Italian-French and 
AnstraliaoJapenese gravity wave 
observatories. A gravity wave 
“telescope" needs a site free from 
any seismic activity. 

Professor John Sandeman, from 
the Australian National Univer¬ 
sity (ANUX and David Blair, from 
the University of Western Austra¬ 
lia (UWA), have found an ideal 
place at a sandy area on Walfingup 
Plain, near Gingin 45 ffliles north 
of Perth. 

Hough says: “Ideally, a network 
of at least four observatories, 
several thousand miles apart but 
linked by atomic dodo, is needed 
to make an accurate location of 
the source of gravity waves.* 1 
Continued on page 37 


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concern over plans to economize 
on the Freedom international 
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station 

Professor Reimar Lust, director- 
general of the European Space 

Agency (ESAk in an address to tite 

USHouse of Representaliws 
committee on science, spa* and 
technology. He hoped that Nasa 
would honour the on gmd 
meat on cooperation, signe» 
President Reagan’s “Station- 
with the European agency m w 
and reinstate «? 

which the w 

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about cuts to the 
Freedom project 

multi-billion Freedom space sta¬ 
tion that was to be launched in 
1995. ^ . 

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ture is covered by a package of 
projects called the Columbus dev¬ 
elopment programme It includes 

a manned laboratory to be attach¬ 
ed permanently to Freedom.' a 
spacecraft c alled a man-tended 
foe-flyer (MTFF) that would 
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 


Slimming 

the screen 

Scientists are taking longer than 
expected to develop a television 
thin enough to hang on a wall. But will 
it catch on? George Cole reports 

F or years, the electronics and cannot produce a full-colour 
industry has been pro- display. As a result, they have so 
miring television sets Ear been restricted to military and 
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F or years, the electronics 
industry has been pro¬ 
mising television sets 
which are so thin they 
will hang on the wall like 
a picture. Yet, despite all the 
advances in television technology, 
large flat television screens barely 
exist outside the laboratory or 
science fiction novel. 

Television sets and computer 
monitors are bulky because they 
use a cathode ray tube (CRT). 
Developed more than 80 years 
ago, ft works by firing a beam of 
electrons on to a phosphor-coated 
screen to produce tiny points of 
light called pixels. 

Television pictures are made up 
of about half a million pixels and 
the greater the number of pixels, 
the sharper the image. CRTs give 
high picture quality and are 
to make, but they are large, heavy 
and use lots of power. 

Both the electronics and com¬ 
puter industries want to replace 
the CRT with flat-screen technol¬ 
ogy — although for different 
reasons. The electronics camp 
wants to develop compact video 
equipment with crystal-dear pic¬ 
tures; computer companies want 
portables with high-quality text 
and graphics. 

Finding a replacement for the 
CRT has not been easy. But Dr 
Alan Knapp, leader of informa¬ 
tion display at Philips lab¬ 
oratories, says “Making a flat- 
screen display is relatively simple; 
making it cheap enough to com¬ 
pete with the CRT is another 
Story.” 

Front runners in the race for the 
flat-screen display are gas-plasma, 
electroluminescent, liquid crystal 
display (LCD) and the flat CRT. 

Gas-plasma and electro lumine¬ 
scent displays work by passing a 
voltage through gases or chemicals 
which causes them to glow orange- 
red. Gas-plasma displays are thin 
— about half an inch thick — and 
some displays are more than 3ft 
across and comprise more than 
four million pixels. 

But both systems are expensive 


and cannot produce a full-colour 
display. As a result, they have so 
Ear been restricted to military and 
avionics use: 

LCDs look more promising. 
These are made by sandwiching a 
thin layer of liquid crystals be¬ 
tween two electrodes. When a 
voltage is passed through them 
they twist upright, altering the 
amount of light passing through. 
For television displays, the liquid 
crystals are arranged as a matrix of 
cells which represe nt pixels. 

LCDs have the advantages of 
being small, light and using little 
power. The first LCDs were used 
in watches, calculators and 
pocket-sized televisions. 

But these eariy sets gave coarse 
pictures because their screens were 


20,000 pixels. 

Modern LCD televisions have 
Sin or 6in screens with almost 10 
times as many pixels and use 
filters for full colour pictures. 
Sony, Hitachi and Panasonic mar¬ 
ket portable VCRs with Sin LCD 
screens. 

Building larger LCDs is difficult 
because as the screen size in¬ 
creases, the picture becomes 
poorer. Scientists are developing 
“super twist” crystals for bigger 
and better LCDs. 

Sharp has demonstrated a 14in 
LCD screen which is lin thick, 
weighs less than 41b and has more 
than 308,000 pixels. Each pixel is 
divided into four dots, giving a 
display with more than one mil¬ 
lion points of light It is acceptable 
for television pictures, but is not 
good enough for computers. 

Most lap-top computers use 
LCDs, but these are in mono¬ 
chrome and the text is not as dear 
as that from a CRT monitor. 
Hitachi and Toshiba recently 
demonstrated lOin foil colour 
LCD screens with picture quality 
matching IBM's business graphics 
standard. Hitachi says its screen 
could be available by the end of 
the year. 

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JVC, Sharp and Toshiba, have 


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developed LCD projectors. The 
pictures they give are not as bright 
or dear as those obtained from 
film or CRT, but the quality is 
improving. JVC recently used an 
LCD projector in a Japanese 
ditema and found the 
reaction encouraging. 

But not everyone has given up 
on the CRT. A number of groups 
are working on flat CRT systems, 
which will combine a small size 


with performance. Matsushita, 
parent company to Panasonic, 
Technics and JVC has developed 
a beam matrix television which 
combines CRT and LCD. In a 
beam matrix set, the phosphors 
are arranged on the screen in a flat 
matrix, like liquid crystals. But the 
set uses a stream of electrons to 
excite the phosphors, producing 
CRT picture quality. 

Matsushita has demonstrated 


16in and 4in screens, with respec¬ 
tive thicknesses of four and 2.5 
inches, but no marketing date has 
been set 

Despite foe quest for flat-screen 
displays, millions of pounds is still 
being invested in CRT produc¬ 
tion. Knapp says: “The CRT will 
remain the dominant display sys¬ 
tem for many years to come. In the 
meantime, it will get nibbled at the 
edges by LCD systems." 


Nature’s way 
to clean up 


Soil microbes are 
being used to 
reclaim one of the 
world’s most 
polluted sites 

S dentists are preparing to 
one of Eu¬ 
rope’s most polluted sites 
using nature technologically 
speeded up. 

The land, nine e nvironm entally 
unfriendly acres in the centre of 
Stockholm, formerly housed gas 
and coke works and a creosote 
plant The land is snaked with 
pmre creosote and stands beside a 
lake used for drinking water. 

A Cardiff company, Ko- 
treatmeat, has woo the contract to 
make It safe by neut r a lizing foe 
pollution with laboratory-grown 

sml microbes. 

A gram ofsofl normally contains 
about 10 bfltion microbes. Con¬ 
sisting mainly of hy d ro gen , oxy¬ 
gen, nitrogen, carbon and snip bur, 
these microorganisms are harm¬ 
less to hrnnana even if-consumed, 
but in the soil they slowly break 
down the complex molecules of 
chemical poflntants into water and 
carton dioxide. 

Bfotreatment’s scientists an¬ 
alyze contaminated sod samples to 
identify the microbe strain that hi 
attacking the pollutants, then grow 
it in enormous numbers to be 
applied in sotntion to foe land to 
accelerate foe degradation. 

The company’s first case for 
treatment was a 24-acre disused 
gasworks site at Bkckbimi, Lan¬ 
cashire, contaminated with tars, 
phenols, cyanides, spent oxides 
and other Unde compounds, typical 
pollutants in land vacated by 
Britain's declining industries. 

The £840,000 redamation, fin¬ 
anced by a government OenHct 
land Grant, took two years and 
earned Biotreafment a Royal Soci¬ 
ety of Arts award in 1987. Light 
industry is now established on foe 
rite. 

More recently, the microbial 
method was used on 160 square 
metres of the 120-acre Erdol oil 
refinery site at Speyer, West 
Germany. Oil had seeped into foe 
sofl and the underlying ground¬ 
water. The 21-week operation 
neutralized almost all the oil and 
ml hydrocarbons in the area 
treated. 


The Stockholm project, ap¬ 
proved by the city a u thorities last 
week and bring carried out hi 
partnership with Skanska, 

Scandinavia’s biggest dvfl en¬ 
gineering company, n the font 
large-scale reclamation by micro¬ 
bial attack fo rim — the treatment 
wifl he given without land distur¬ 
bance, whereas in other projects 
sofl is lifted and prepared da rite 
for microbe treatment. 

The reason is that land move¬ 
ment could spiB the creosote, a 
CMc er-ni l l uc hl g pollutant, into foe 
H oni ng lake, which feeds a river 
supplying Stockholm with water. 
The microbe solution will there- 
' fore be channelled through pipes 
sunk into tiie site. 

Other main targets for microbial 
attack are refase rites, where 
decomposing paper and food waste 
produce methane. In Greater 
Manchester, Biotreafment has 
gone into partnership with other 
enterprises to tap methane re¬ 
leased from a landfill site by foe 
microbial method. The gas then 
fbeb a lain nm by Salresen Brick. 

At Azpley, Cheshire, the com¬ 
pany is involved with a group that 
will use this method to draw oat 
and use methane from a new dump 
that win receive 13 mfifion tonnes 
of rubbish daring foe next 25 
years. At peak production the tip 
wifl yield six million therms a 
year. 

O ne great advantage of 
microbial treatment is 
that the contamination 
is permanently dis¬ 
pelled, whereas the tra¬ 
ditional method of removmg the 
contaminated sril, damping it on a 
licensed site and laying down 
tmpoflnted soil merely relocates 
foe problem, possibly to worry 
future generations. 

The other environmental advan¬ 
tages are that it is quiet and Is done 
on the spot, while land- st ri ppin g 
introduces noisy machinery and 
terms travelling to and from the 
site for weeks. 

The company also gMm foe 
technique is 20 per cent cheaper 
than conventional methods. 

Dr John Rees, director and 
general manager, says: “We now 
hare an opportunity to attack the 
poflatants in oar sofl. They caase 
damage to boiktiiigs and foe 
contamination of water. And these 
problems are gofog to remain if 
yon don’t treat them in a thorough 
way.** 

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N ew weapons are being 
developed in the war 
against cancer which 
win greatly enhance 
the prospects of sur¬ 
vival for many thousands of 
sufferers in the next few years. 
Scientists in Britain and the 
United States are taking what may 
prove to be significant steps in 
control of the disease. 

They are gaining fundamental 
insights into how cancer ceils grow 
and thrive in the human body, and 
how they can be neutralized. 
Cancer is a cruel disease, not least 
because it so often stages a lethal 
comeback after apparently having 
been defeated. It has the power to 
resist even the most sophisticated 
drugs designed to combat it 
Now, however, new means of 
overcoming this trait are being 
developed and tested on British 
patients. At the same time, Ameri¬ 


can researchers believe they have 
devised a method of transforming 
cancerous cells bade to normal. 

Drug resistance has always been 
one' of tife greatest and most 
frustrating obstacles to curing 
cancer. While many patients re¬ 
spond well to initial treatment, 
some cancer cells survive and 
become invulnerable. 

No matter which drugs are used, 
every year 90,000 people in 
Britain die because even after 
success in initial treatment, even¬ 
tually the disease wins the contest, 
repelling chemotherapy or malting 
it impotent. 

It does so in three basic ways. 
Cancer cells can switch on a 
defensive system which rejects 
drugs before they can take effect 
They can also deactivate the 
drugs. 

If some of the drug does 
penetrate the cell, it may not 


destroy it and the damage can be 
repaired quickly. 

However, doctors have discov¬ 
ered the existence in cancer cells of 
a protein, called P-gJycoprotein, 
which- effectively turns back a 
wide range of invading drugs 
airafd at reaching and d es troyin g 
the core of the tumour. 

From this insight it is now 
possible to employ drugs which 
can thwart the protein, without 

diminishing th*-irat tacking power. 

These include verapamil, nor¬ 
mally used to treat blood pressure 
problems, nifedipine, a calcium 
blocker, and high doses of 
tamoxifen, which is successful in 
the treatment of breast cancer. 

After lengthy laboratory trials, 
these compounds are being tested 
on patients in a project organized 
by scientists at the Imperial 
C&ncer Research Fund’s rfininal 
oncology unit in Oxford. 


Professor Adrian Harris, head 
of the Oxford team, says; “It’s too 
early to speculate about cures and 
long-term survival, but studies 
now under way are showing that 
some patients respond to tins new 
method of treatment. Our hope is 
that by the of the 
thousands more patients will be 
able to live normal, active lives, 
with their disease under control” 


H e and colleagues are 
also testing drugs 
which prevent cancer 
cells repairing them¬ 
selves after a drug 
bombardment. This work could 
be important in the treatment of 
tumours, including lung cancer. 

In a third development, it has 
been found that cancer cells can 
neutralize drugs by nring proteins 
called glutathione S-tracsferases, 
or GST. To overcome this. Dr 


Roland WoHJ head of the ICRF 
molecular phannacoiogy and drug 
metabolism laboratory in Edin¬ 
burgh, is trying to subvert the 
proteins so that they work with, 
rather «h«n a gainst t the drugs. 

“In some forms of lung cancer, 
present treatment can remove all 
visible signs of the tumour, but 
one or two cancer cells survive 
and the tumour invariably re¬ 
grows, ” he says. “This is an area of 
acquired drug resistance where we 
can come tantalizingly dose to a 
cure, but we can’t quite get there.” 

Monoclonal antibodies, chemi¬ 
cal agents designed to seek out and 
stick to cancer cells, are becoming 
increasingly important in the ac¬ 
curate delivery of cell-killing 
drugs. Researchers believe that, 
when combined with resistance- 
weakening drugs, the effectiveness 
of these agents is boosted. 

Meanwhile American research- 


i S^ntrois] Computers see the light 


key skills? 


. The IT industry is 
fighting over which 
job standards 
scheme to adopt 


G oronmKat plans to cre¬ 
ate aatio—I vocational 

jaiiSatiniLJS^v-. 

1992 are taring fitio diffi¬ 
culties » professional org¬ 
anizations squabhfe over antral 
of the skills standard. 

The irfbrmation hdndtp 
industry has been trying to 
orgaaize itself for tire last year. 
One reason for the problems is 
that anyone can work in IT and 
there has been no hnge demand 
from staff or employers for a 
formal registration system. 

The British Gompnter Society 
(BCS) and tire IT services 
companies’Computing Services 
Industry Training Council 
(Cosit) are both part of the 
National Council of Vocational 
Qualifications (NCVQ) stan¬ 
dards body, hot they are at 


Each operates career dev¬ 
elopment schemes for coa- K 
p«niftc to help their staff move 
hp the skills ladder. There are 
Utter rows over which scheme 
should form the basis of die IT 
co mpe t e nce standards, and 
which organization should 
award NCVQ certificates to 
staf£ ms a charge is made for 
ffdi one issued. 

The debate is dividing the 
industry. There are problems 
when staff training under one 
jdHWM move to a company 
which operates only the compet¬ 
ing scheme. A marked dif¬ 
ference between the two hi that 
Cosifs competence tests can be 
signed by any supervisor or 
manager while the BCS allows 
only its own members to certify 
competence. . 

Membership of the BCS is 


United largely to these with 
lip lAtwnwnik in com¬ 
peting while Cosit draws no 
distinction between those with 
degrees and those with on-the- 
job skills. 

The issoe of which organiza¬ 
tion should own the merged 
scheme is also in conflict 
hw>n» each charges com¬ 
panies pairing the scheme on 
board. Both see themselves as 
■t he futu re custodiannf IT skills 
standards, although the Gov¬ 
ernment has made it dear they 
should be “industry ted”. 

Alan Taylor, director of foe 
BCS’s professional ■ division, 
says: *T would expect the BCS 
to be the principle standards 
body within foe NCVQ and the 
guardian of those standards.” 

But Gordon Ewan, director of 
Cosit, says: “They want a 
stranglehold on the qualifica¬ 
tions to use for their own ends. 
The BCS wants to take as over 
and put us ont of business. We 
we understandably reluctant to 
do tint. They are concentrating 
too much on a narrow pro¬ 
fessional ».* * 

Government ministers have 
placed great emphasis on the 
importance of creating work- 
related competence standards 
leading to nationally recognized 
qualifications, as Britain*s 
workforce lags behind Conti¬ 
nental competitors. 

Sir Geoffrey HeDmd, Perma¬ 
nent Secretary at the Depart¬ 
ment of Employment, told a 
recent confe r e n ce of IT man¬ 
agers that the moves to create 
technical and vocational 
qualifications are “good news” 
for Britain. “But,” he admitted, 
“the issue of qualifications is a 
jtnble if ever there was one.” 

The NCVQ has been set foe 

task of approving qualifications, 
in conjunction with the Training 
Agency and representatives of 
companies and professional 
associations. 

Leslie Tilley 


An American 
breakthrough with 
lasers threatens 
to put Britain 
in the shade 


S dentists at the Bell Lab¬ 
oratories of the American 
telecommunications giant, 
AT&T, have built the 
world's first digital optical 
processor, which uses beams of 
laser light rather than the electric 
impulses of existing computers. 

The development is a sign that 
Britain, once regarded as the 
leader in the field, could see yet 
another technology taken over 
and commercially developed by 
others. 

The work is still at a primitive 
stage with the prototype — a 2ft 
square collection of lasers, lenses 
and prisms — only able to operate 
at a speed slower than most 
personal computers. 

But optical computing, as it is 
known, promises machines that 
could be 1,000 times as fast as 
today’s and could finally crack foe 
problems in image and speech 
recognition that existing comput¬ 
ers handle clumsily. 

Optical systems offer the poten¬ 
tial for for better vision systems in 
areas such as robots, and the 
ability for computers quickly to 
recognize complex images such as 
a particular human face from a 
live camera image- 
They have the potential to 
fanrfte miliums of tasks simulta¬ 
neously and their much fester 
speeds are seen as necessary for 
such projects as the mapping of 
the human genetic structure. 

Optical computers use an array 
of laser beams, rapidly switched 
on and of£ which are focused by 
lenses and then passed on to other 
optical switches using mirrors. 
U nlike existing chips, where 
information comes only from the 
frfyt, optical chips would be able 
to pass information- from their 
surface. 

AT&T’s interests include using 



ing, Britain’s lead in what could be 
a crucial computer technology 
would disappear by the end of the 
decade. 

Four British scientists who used 
to work at Heriot-Wait, and who 
Huang says are crucially involved 
in the latest development, are 
working for AT&T. 

“Fora start there was a problem 
with salaries — one person who 
was earning £13,000 per year here 
is now getting more than $60,000 
— virtually three times as much,” 
Smith says. “But more im¬ 
portantly the attraction is the 
funding available, which must be 
100 times as much as we have. 
Here we are struggling to get into 
the development of components 
outride of the laboratory.” 

Huang says: “We owe Desmond 
Smith a great debt of gratitude, but 
it is basically a question of 
resources. Here we have access to 
certain equipment that together 
would cost more than $60 
million.” 

Though Smith claims the dev¬ 
elopment is not quite the world- 
first claimed, he agrees that AT&T 
is catching up and has reached a 
milestone. 


H e has received funding 
over the past few years 
from the European 
Commission, the Sci¬ 
ence and Engineering 
Research Council (SERQ, Boeing 
and the Pentagon for work con¬ 
nected with the Strategic Defence 
Initiative (so-called “star wars”). 
But Smith maintain^ that fun ding 
must be much more ambitious, if 
Britain and Europeans to keep up. 

“The SERC is looking at fund¬ 
ing a joint Scottish project but 
only to the tune of £1 million. 
With five Scottish universities 1 
involved over four years, it works i 
out at only £50,000 per university 
each year. We are looking for £10 

milKnn ” 

He hopes, however, that the 
AT&T announcement win attract 
attention and money into the 
field. He says he is talking to The 
Netherlands* Network Systems 
International, largely owned by 
AT&T, about work on a joint 
programme. 

Matthew May 


Step ahead: Alan Huang helped develop the digital optical processor 


the computers for switching tele¬ 
phone calls, which are themselves 
increasingly being sent as beams of 
light through fibre optic cables. 

Describing the new processor as 
a technological milestone similar 
to the Wright brothers' first aero¬ 
plane, Alan Huang, bead of the 
optical research department at 
Bell, foresees the possibility of a 
telephone call in which the spoken 
words can come out the other end 
after computer processing as a fax 
or written computer file. Simi¬ 
larly, he says, video phones could 
finally become commonplace in 
the household. 

But further breakthroughs will 
be necessary before optical ma¬ 
chines can become commercial 
products — not least the need to 
miniaturize the prototype to the 
size of a microchip so that it can be 


mass-produced at an economic 
pice. 

AT&T scientists believe light- 
based supercomputers that are fer 
more powerful than existing mar 
chines could be available in a 
decade. 

“ft's the difference between 
going to a hbrary and being able to 
read information from a single 
book versus bong able to read 
from all the books in the library at 
once,” Huang says. 

The idea of digital optical 
processing was first demonstrated 
more than two years ago by 
Professor Desmond Smith, a pio¬ 
neer in the field, and his team at 
Heriot-Watt University in 
Edinburgh. 

For several years he has been 
warning that without better fund- 


‘Checking up on Einstein is now a matter of urgency’ 

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Proof of the strings would be 
one of the most significant break¬ 
through in astronomy since 
measurement of the bending of 
starligh t by the Sun confirmed 
Einstein’ s Theory of Relativity. 


Contraned from page 35 

T his apparent rush to 
spend such laige sums of 

money in a field of 
research that has a dis¬ 
appointing record rests 
on other advances, particularly m 
laser technology- Tte newgenera¬ 
tion of detectors iste»donfeser 
beams that bounce b^ and forth 
along two stainless steel ™^ 
rate, three kilometres long tod 
Umctrts in diameter, jbatare 
placed at right 10 *** 

“tSerBght directed stow?* 

B8SES3SKSSS 

al, ^ e a^afatas is 

work on the principle that a 

a-tfSTMTS 

'^Hough describes the effectas, 
g—« ijtg squeezing a rugby bal** 

£ J^iMentaiy altera** 

in the phase of the laser light 

?fer&ltedt»to a 8 lhcp,pe 


from foe mirror to a special 
detector. The influence of a pass¬ 
ing gravity wave could scarcely be 
enough to be called a tremor in the 
accepted meaning of the word. 

Hough says the movement de¬ 
tected by the laser system would 
be one-tenth of a millionth of a 
millionth of a millionth of a 
metre: smaller than the diameter 
of an atom- But if the motion is 

caused by a gravity wave, foe tiny 
Am should be recorded by all 
foe other observatories in foe 

The sites will be linked together 
by atomic docks, ensuring thatfoe 
scientists are certain they have 
detected foe same event 

The use of four observatories 
and synchronizing them with 
atomic clocks would be critical for 
more than just locating foe direc¬ 
tion of a coflapsing star or foe 
effects of the blade hole producing 

^Professor Bernard Scfrute, at foe 
University of Wales, in Cardiff 
has suggested bow to use foe time 

difference of foe gravity signals 
arriving at a network of obser¬ 
vatories, to calculate the distance 
to events occurring millions of 
light years across space. 

An ability to measure that 


distance would resolve the chall¬ 
enge against foe method of 
measurement that astronomers 
have used over half a century to 
calculate the distance of galaxies, 
and hence infer foe size and age of 
the universe. 

It is based on a law devised by 
Edwin Hubble, an American as¬ 
tronomer, in 1929. It explains how 
light seen on Earth from a receding 

galaxy is “stretched out” and 
redder in colour. By measuring foe 
degree of red, known as red-shift, 
foe age and distance of celestial 
objects can be estimated. 

Unfortunately, other mecha¬ 
nisms for causing red-shift have 
been discovered recently in addi¬ 
tion to that taken into account by 
Hubble's law. 

Hough says variations in foe 
interpretation of the red-shift can 
alter calculations of the age of foe 
universe by a factor of two. 

But if the red-shift of a galaxy, 
quasar or star is observed optically 
mid its distance measured from a 
gravitational event by foe new 
observatories, then Hubble’s con¬ 
stant and the age of the universe 
can be obtained in an unambigu¬ 
ous way. 

Hough believes that gravity 
wave detectors could also resolve 


M ore important, it 
would fill a missing 
gap with which as¬ 
tronomers have 
been struggling 
about how and when galaxies 
began to form. 

When general relativity is app¬ 
lied to describing the behaviour of 
our own planet and our neigh¬ 
bours in the solar system, foe 
predictions only difib' from New¬ 
ton’s by small amount 
Even so, die equations used by 
Einstein to describe his space-time 
universe produce some curious 
effects that some scientists find 
tmpalataNe. 

According to the theory, a dock 
taken to the visible surface of the 
Sun would run slower by about a 


minute a year, because of foe 
Sun’s stronger gravity, than if it 
had stayed on the Earth- 

Ingenious experiments in Bri¬ 
tain and the US showed the same 
effect with atomic clocks running 
slower if they were closer to the 
ground. 

When men first visited the 
Moon, they placed a reflector on 
the surface of the Moon. For more 
than 20 years it has been the target 
for laser beams shot by Earth- 
bound scientists, who have taken 
thousands of measurements using 
the Hsfat reflected back. 

Checking the measurements 
against estimates based on Ein¬ 
stein’s equation, the measured 
variations in those from the Moon 
agree to within 25 centimetres of 
calculations. 

More astonishing and recently 
discovered phenomena such as 
gravitational lenses — in which 
twin images of a distant object are 
seen on Earth because of foe way 
the gravity from an intervening 
galaxy bends foe bghi - are taken 
as illustrations of relativity at 
work. 

But it was the rash of discov¬ 
eries including quasars, neutron 
stars, , pulsars and black holes, in 
which foe rote of gravity itself 


became a prime candidate as foe 
supplier of energy, that has made 
dmrfring up on Einstein a matter 
of urgency. 

Explanations for their existence 
call on gravity having over¬ 
whelmed some of the forces that 
sustain, on Earth, the elements 
that make up the rocks of the 
planet and its molten core. 

Ideas such as the immense 
gravitational forces of black boles, 
which would slow down docks 
and life processes so greatly that a 
lapse of 10,000 years on Earth 
would seem like only a few weeks 
to a voyager orbiting a black hole, 
have fired imaginations and raised 
questions of space and time. 

A further paradox, on which the . 
gravity wave observatory might | 
shed some light, has arisen in foe 
past two weeks. 

It has come with the first results 
provided by the latest spacecraft 
from the National Aeronautics 
ami Space Administration (Nasa) 
launched last November, called 
Cosmic Background Explorer 
(Cobe). These have thrown into 
doubt foe existing theories of just 
how foe first galaxies' and stars 
were formed from the ball of hot 1 
hydrogen gas created by the Big 
Bang. 


era are enthusiastic about an 
experimental drug which appears 
capable of turning cancer cells 
back into normal cells. They hope 
to begin ctinical trials this year to 
show that it can cure patients with 
different forms of cancer. 

The compound is based on a 
new chemical, bexam ethylene 
bisacetamide, or HMBA. It is the 
result of 12 years woik by Dr Paul 
Marks and Dr Richard Rifkind, of 
the Memorial Sloan-Kettering 
Cancer Centre, New York, and 
Professor Ronald Breslow, of 
Columbia University. 

Their efforts, featured in the 
Channel 4 programme Dispatches 
last night, provide evidence that 
cancer ceQs can behave normally. 
The challenge now is to develop a 
drug foal is safe and effective. 
“The possibilities are huge; al¬ 
though a great deal more needs to 
be done,” Professor Breslow says. 


Radiating 

concern 

The health risk from low level 
electromagnetic radiation, emit¬ 
ted by computer screens and many 
household products, should be 
examined further, according to a 
study by the Massachusetts Insti¬ 
tute afTechnology and the Ameri¬ 
can National Institute of Stand¬ 
ards and Technology. Researchers 
say there is insufficient evidence 
to dismiss potential health risks 
from the weak electric and mag¬ 
netic fields found in areas around 
power lines, radar emitters and 
even electric blankets. 

James Weaver, MIT scientist 
and co-author of the report, 
stresses that it did not claim that 
electromagnetic fields pose a 
health threat. It signed that the 
subject should be given more 
scrutiny and taken more seriously. 

Back to earth 

On Tuesday, scientists began 
examining the 11 ton science sat¬ 
ellite recovered by the Columbia 
shuttle last month that had spent 
nearly six years in space and that 
appears to have suffered more 
wear and tear than expected. For 
the first time, satellite designers 
will be able to study foe effects of 
such long exposure in space with 
the aim of developing longer- 
lasting satellites. 

The original plan of foe Nat¬ 
ional Aeronautics and Space Ad¬ 
ministration (Nasa) to recover foe 
satellite after only 10 months in 
space was postponed because of 
shuttle launch delays and foe 1986 
Challenger disaster. But foe delay 
had its advantages, as scientists 
now say that foe satellite is a mine 
of information about foe effect of 
long spaceflight 

Walking book 

In an unusual public showing of 
future products in Tokyo, Sony 
has displayed what it describes as 
the first electronic book. The Data 
Discman, which weighs lib and is 
carried in foe same way as a 
personal stereo, will use 3in 
compact discs which can each 
display up to 100,000 pages of 
infor matio n. 

It can also be used to play music 
using the 3 in CD single, Sony also 
displayed a pocket tape recorder— 



V.V.V.V. ,',w. AW. .V 


using a two-hour tape little huger 
than a postage stamp and provid¬ 
ing digital recording — one of 
many digital audio tape products 
planned —and a pair of Walkman 
headphones that are claimed to be 
able to electronically reduce cer¬ 
tain types of background noise, 
including aircraft engines. 

Bug in the chips 

Intel, the computer chip manufac¬ 
turer, has discovered another bug 
in its powerful new processor, foe 
486, that will further delay foe 
introduction of foe latest genera¬ 
tion of personal computers. An 
earlier bug, discovered in October, 
has been corrected, and Intel ays 
the new problem can be dealt with 
by adding other logic devices 
rather than replacing foe micro¬ 
processor. Compaq, which was 
due to start deliveries of comput¬ 
ers using the new chip next week 
says it does not know how long the 
bug will delay deliveries. 

Matthew May 


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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 



Tlie green ia«3iine?IHTid Willis and ttieiBatogwhfch he says is powered by radio wares. “As I adj«stMtte 

Towards a better mousetrap 


A British inventor claims 
he has discovered a limit¬ 
less source of dean 
power, tapping in to high 
frequency radio waves to 
run ftw ginfts. David Wills, a disabled 
former Grenadier Guardsman, has 
developed a series of prototype 
motors to demonstrate fuel-less 
propulsion. 

The 52-year-old Cornishman is 
convinced his discovery can play a 
vital role in curbing environmental 
destruction and global warming by 
rendering the internal combustion 
engine and its fossil fuels obsolete. 

Willis, inventor of the world's 
first “indestructible paint” which 
has been used to protect the South 
African tanker, Kuluo, and parts of 
OWbury-on-Severn power station 
in Gloucestershire, accepts that his 
daunt are “staggering”. 

Nevertheless, he welcomes any of 
. the large electronics companies to 
scrutinize his work. 

According to Richard Paine of 
Inventaiink, a London consultancy 
that puts inventors in touch with 
commercial partners, the threat to 
the environment has become a near 
obsession among the nation's 
inventors. 

He likens it to the effects of a ferry 
disaster which appears to galvanize 
everyone into action, spawning 
dozens of marine safety devices. 


Where Willis differs, however, is 
that his invention is on a grand 
scale, with the touch of eccentricity 
that fits the popular image of 
inventors. Paine, a former advertis¬ 
ing agency executive, says 10 years 
of the Thatcher Government has 
brought a more realistic attitude. 

“More of the ideas we are seeing 
are very well presented. There is less 
of the scribbled figures and di¬ 
agrams on the bock of an envelope”, 
says Charles Dawes, an inventor, 
and one of the three-man team that 
founded Inventaiink eight years 
ago. 

Greater use of word processors 
and computers to better present 
hi ghlights this trend towards 
professionalism. Inventors now talk 
about filling gaps or niches in the 
market rather than revolutionary 
ideas which nobody may want. 

The exact number of inventors 
working in Britain is unknown but 
Inventaiink sees about 1,000 an¬ 
nually. Some do it for a living, 
whereas others have turned a hobby 
into a consuming p assion 

Their ideas range from Flicker 
Bear for children, a strap-on arm 
attachment that flashes bright col¬ 
ours at night, to a vessel that is part 
ship, part hovercraft. 

The vessel, called a Hi-Sbip, was 
designed by John Rilett, of Bibuiy, 
Gloucestshire. He claims it uses the 


The mad inventor 
stereotype is far 
from the new 


marketing power of 
today's ideas men, 
says Nick Nnttall 


same power as a conventional craft, 
yet can travel twice as fast on its air- 
lubricated bulL 

To ensure the inventions reg¬ 
istered have merit, Inven taiink has 
formed links with experts in various 
fields. Only a fraction of inventors 
are finally taken on and promoted, 
given advice on patenting, presenta¬ 
tion and a contract to protect from 
intellectual theft. 

Some large companies still baulk 
at the notion of independent in¬ 
ventors, Dawes says. But many are 
starting to recognize the benefits of 
outside “ideasmen”, people capable 
of cracking a design or engineering 
difficulty from an overview of the 
problem. • 

Some Mg companies employ a 
person specifically charged with 


searching for outside inventions, he 
explained. Also, instead ofbeatiiiga 
well worn path to a company’s 
headquarters, Inventaiink Is start¬ 
ing to find that businesses are 
coming to it 

In an attempt to reach a wider 
audience for British inventions, the 
company has started publishing 
Inventions, a monthly newsletter. 
This is being distributed to leading 
companies to act as a shopping list 
for ideas and to spark interest in 
inventions. 

N evertheless, both agree 
that there is still the 
place for the true vision¬ 
ary — the inventor who, 
standing in the shower 
or staring out to sea, is suddenly 
seized by an idea. 

So it was with David Willis, who 
explains that his idea came two 
years ago, while he was recovering 
from a long illness. *T was strode by 
the feet that the Earth and the Sun’s 
magnetic fields allowed satellites to 
move around our planet,” be says. 
• “I began wondering bow magnetic 
forces could be harnessed.” 

Over several months, he began 
experimenting with a small motor 
consisting of coiled magnets that 
would run on electricity. Willis 
wondered if this could be designed 
so that radio waves could act on the 


magn ets, changing their polarity 
and causing them to move. 

During the following months, he 
cobbled tog et her contraptions con¬ 
sisting of a magnetic motor, a 
powerful receiver to collect radio 
waves, complete with microchip 
and an aerial. 

Late one night, his work paid off 
“The radio wave was coming in 
from BBC Radio Cornwall and to 
my great astonishment it started to 
move, using no electricity. As I 
adjusted the toner to receive the 
station better the motor began 
humming like a top,” Willis says. 
“The little thingjust flew around.” 

Exact details of his design and its 
success are being kept under wraps, 
bat he has built a transmitter and 
motors that he claims can turn a fly- 
wheel without fuel and run his 
grandson's pram. 

Willis, whose other commercial¬ 
ized inventions have in c lu d ed a 
device for use on aircraft that leaks 
coloured dye if an engine bolt fails, 
is now designing a four-engined, 
12ft wing-span plane for launch in 
summer. 

A spokesman for the electronics 
group General Electric Company 
(GEC) says the company is highly 
sceptical that the device could be 
harnessed in a useful way, but adds 
that it would be happy to mminf 
the prototype. 


f^hr, -it 


; - -SC^iCE REPORT 


Aids cure a 

step nearer 


T he fight against Aids 
moved a Step further 
this week, with the 
annomceiBeBt of a tow 
family of anti-viral chemi¬ 
cals, described by their 
discoverers as the most 
powerful foand solar. 

Reporting in today's fa¬ 
ne of Atone, Hndi 
Paawds of the Kega In¬ 
stitute for Medical Re¬ 
search in Belgian and 
coDeagnes show how the 
chemicals Mock an enzyme 
vital to the life- qde of the 
Aids virus, HIV-1. 

Remarkably, the ne w 
chemicals, called TXBO 
derivatives, are effective in 
mhMBcale amounts. This 
means that then-toxicity in 
hnmaBS should prove to be 
lower titan that of the Aids 
drag ACT, already in use. 

The sew chemicals axe 
also far more sel¬ 
ective in the - 

kinds of vims 

they win stop; Results ftTC 


different kind of anti-HIV 
dmiBcai, designed to stop 
the virus at a much later 


In the Jan nary 26 issue 
of sdeace. T J. McQuade 
of die Upjohn Company in 
the United States and col¬ 
leagues describe the anti- 
vital activity of a chemical 
inhibitor specifically de¬ 
signed to Mode HIV-1 
protease, a different type of 
HIV-1 enzyme from re¬ 
verse transcriptase. 

Whereas reverse trans¬ 
criptase springs in to ac tion 
as soon as the vires Invades 
the cell, HIV-1 protease 
enters the story mach later 
on, finishing the Job started 
by reverse transcriptase. 

The protease tutors the 
raw HIV-1 proteins ready 
for assembly into new virus 
particles. The American 
researchers’ re- 

-salts show that 

after treatment 


with the protease 
unlike AZT, for promising.. „ inhibitor, cells 
sample, HBO f L p „ t L p infected with 
derivatives have mere IS me gjy.j produce 
no effect on HIV- possibility only deformed Vi- 
2, a strain of the that they Will ral particles that 
Aids nres dose- . i 10 are less mfec- 
ly related to Stop VITUS tioas than not- 
BJV-I. production’ mal HIV-1. 

ThenewTIBO According to 

derivatives, like .. Don Jeffries, 

head of the Anti¬ 
viral Testing Unit at St 
Mary’s Hospital, London, 
protease inhibitors may 
prove more effective in 
treating HTV infection in 
the long ran than drags 
targeted against reverse 
transriptase. 

“The initial resu l ts with 
protease inhibitors are very 
promising and there is the 
possibility that they will 
completely stop virus pro¬ 
duction without being 
toxic,” Jeffries says. 

Current research into 
protease tohibitors sug¬ 
gests that it should be 
possible to design one that 
blocks HIV-1 protease but 
spares the body’s own 
arsenal of proteases, kill¬ 
ing the lethal virus, bat net 
the body's own cells. 


AZT and other 
anti-Aids chemicals such 
as ddC and ddl, which are 
at present befog tested, 
work by disabling reverse 
transcriptase, an enzyme 
without which HIV-1 can¬ 
not reproduce. 

Reverse transcriptase per- 
forms its vital functions at 
an earty stage in the life 
cyde of HIV-1, soon after 
the virus h as en tered a 
healthy cdL TEBO deriv¬ 
atives, by Mocking reverse 
transcriptase, prevent the 
virus from hipAing the 
cell's own biochemical 
machinery to make copies 
of itself. 

Most anti-HIV drags 
being developed, inducting 
TIBO deriv at ives, stop the 
virus at the be ginning of its 
life cyde. But today's an- 
noanceraent follows an¬ 
other report describing the 
activity of a completely 


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tae ywteniay The pair put 

on 76 during M tense overe 

and their team’s deficit was 
-..restricted to 116 runs. The 
■. Universities lost wickets rap- 
idly when they batted again 
and were 62-5 by the close: 

r As the players left the field, 
the names of the South Afc 
ncan team for the first of the 

two fi ve-day internationals, 
stalling in Johannesburg next 
Thursday, became known. 

luce, the deposed captain, has 
l«t his place, as expected, and 
McEwan, another senior 
l*yer familiar to Engfish 
crowds, has also been omitted, 
ft is the first repres entativ e 
- side Sooth Africa ha*? had to 
choose since the second tour 
by Kim Hughes’s Austr alian 
team in 1986-87. 

.Acc urate seam bowling by 
Stefan Jacobs was primarily 
responsible for the breakdown 
by the English team’s batting. 
During his first seven ova’s, 
he had Barnett and Robinson 
held at second slip and gully, 
and then deceived Maynard 
withanearyoricer. He went on 
to finish with five wickets. 
Jacobs, aged 23, is in his 
second season with TransvaaL 
A nagging length, with just a 

Stylish Bevan 
hits 74 to 
beat Pakistan 

Canberra (Reuter) — Pakistan 
suffered their sixth defeat on 
their tour of Australia yesterday 
when a Prime Minister's XI beat 
them by 81 runs in a one-day 
match. 

Michael Bevan, of Sooth 
Australia, scored a stylish 74 off 
82 deliveries and Veletla made a 
neat SO to take the home side to 
266 for eight off 50 overs. 

. Pakistan never threatened in 
reply after sEpping from 54 for 
oneJo 97 for five. 

SCORES: Mm MMmr*a M 268-8 (50 
own) (M Bevan 74, J Cox 88, M RJ 
Vatotm 50k Pakistanis 185-7 (50 ovare) 
(Satoecn Youaul 54 not out). Plana 
Wnbtert XI won by 81 nn. 


bint of movement, helped 
keep everyone subdued. 

Broad was the only English¬ 
man to suggest he was in 
touch, before he and Wefls 
were out in successive overs. 
Wells foiled to beat a good 
return from Steyn at mid¬ 
wicket; Broad was taken in the 
slips as he drove loosely. 
Then, Cowdrey was bowled 
around his legs trying to sweep 
Eksteen, a left-arm s pinner , 
and French was brilliantly 
caught at deep square leg by 
Hudson diving to his right. 
The English XI were 62 runs 

short of saving the follow-on 
as Emburey and Foster came 
together. Both bad several 
alarms but managed to sur¬ 
vive. Foster finally lifted a 
catch to long-off; Emburey 
was last out hitting across the 
line after ban mg 3 % hours. 

Difley, who batted with a 
runner, is not expected to raw? 
any further part in the game, 
but his troublesome kft knee 
may allow him to play at the 
weekend. Foster and Jarvis 
each took a wicket in their first 
over when the Universities 
began their second innings, on 
a pitch starring to yield vari¬ 
able bounce. 

On the political front, there 
were no incidents reported 
from the townships during the 
day, though the National 
Sports Congress (NSC) staged 
another peaceful demonstra¬ 
tion, involving about 1,200 


protesters, outride the ground. 
This time, the NSC secured its 
own legal permission without 
help from South African 
cricket officials. A meagre 
attendance at the match was 
swelled by seven busloads of 
black children from township 
schools, whose visit was made 
possible by a social and wel¬ 
fare group funded by local 
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Setting an example: Fraser, exempted from criticism handed to the England bowlers 

Gooch passes his early test 

From Alan Lee, Cricket Correspondent, Barbados 


Surrey coy about new 
West Indies bowler 


Surrey are close to signing a 
West Indies fast bowler for next 
season to replace Sylvester 
Clark, who was dismissed last 
year, but his name is being kept 
secret until final details have 
been agreed. 

Ian Greig, the Surrey captain, 
and Geoff Arnold, the coach, 
have been in the Caribbean for 
the past two weeks on their 
talent-spot tin g mMoa. Greig, 
now back in Britain, said: “We 
have got our man .. . but to 
reveal his name at -this stage 
might well harm the deal." 

Ezra Moseley and Tony John¬ 
son, of Barbados, are believed to 
be on Surrey’s shopping list 


along with Tony Gray, of Trini¬ 
dad. who played at the Oval 
b etween 1985 and 1988. 

• Ian Botham has signed a new 
three-year contract for Worces¬ 
tershire. The county champions 
will begin their pre-season 
p rep ara tions at a round-robin 
oiteday competition in the 
Bahama* from March 30 to 
April 9. Somerset will also take 
pan. 

• Graeme Wood has been re¬ 
placed as Western Australia 
captain by Geoff Marsh, the 
Australian vice-captain, al¬ 
though Wood led the state to 
win the Sheffield Shield for each 
ofthe past three seasons. 


Graham Gooch's powers of 
leadership, which some still 
strenuously denigrate, were 
given an unexpectedly early 
airing here on Tuesday as 
England made torture ofthe one 
match on this tour they could be 
expected to win without 
difficulty. 

Gooch emerged enhanced 
from a brush with humiliation, 
refusing, as the television 
commercial has it, to make a 
drama out of a crisis. He 
impressively established a grip 
on a team with alarmingly tittle 
experience, though the balance 
of events served only to confirm 
one's worst fears of what ties 
ahead 

As Gooch himself put it, after 
the 20-run victory over a Bar¬ 
bados second XI: “If anyone 
thought it wouldn’t be hard 
work out here, they know better 
now." 

En gland would undoubtedly 
have been beaten, embarrass¬ 
ingly so, but for a crucial few 
minutes in which their recall of 


basic cricketing virtues co¬ 
incided with an onset of panic 
among the young Barbadians. 

In fact, it was a shower of rain 
which mad* the essential 
difference. 

The locals, ax the time, were 
110 for one from 20 overs and 
cruising to a target of 238 in SO. 
Gooch hurried his players into 
the dressing-room where a brief 
but businesslike lecture was 
given. 

According to tee team man¬ 
ager, Micky Stewart: “We sat 
down and regrouped We re¬ 
minded them of what we had set 
out to da" Recalled rapidly to 
the field. England proceeded to 
take eight wickets for 35 nuu. 

Even then, a spirited last- 
wicket stand threatened Eng¬ 
land and Gooch deserves 
further credit for his reaction 
when an evidentally plain edge 
to the wicketkeeper was ruled 
not ouL The pouring and 
posturing which has soured 
r ec e nt England teams had no 
chance to develop here as 


Gooch ordered the bowler back 
to his mark and sharply told the 
rest of his players to get on with 
the game. 

Pleasing though this was, the 
stark realities of England's first 
competitive outing were worry¬ 
ing. Even their fielding was 
shockingly below standard. 
Much of the baiting was pon¬ 
derous and the bowling, Fraser 
apart, profligate. 

Lamb's return is urgently 
required, for without him 
Gooch is exposed as the one 
player of proven stature. 

EllcOck, the other fitness 
worry for England, has been 
referred for “psychological re¬ 
assurance" to Dr Rtxti Webster, 
once a Warwickshire player, 
latterly manager of Kerry Pack¬ 
er's West Indian team and, 
incidentally, the man who 
helped introduce Bob WOtis to 
hypnotherapy. Ellcocfc, like 
Lamb, is already ruled out of 
tomorrow's Opening first-class 
game in St Kitts. 


SPORTS LETTERS 


Government cannot cure all football problems 


From the Minister fir Sport 
Sir, I read with interest the 
balanced editorial, “English 
Soccer Squalor" (January 30), 
which correctly says that the 
“Government’s concern is with 
pubtic safety and public order". 
I was. therefore, surprised to 
read in the same edition Stuart 
Jones’s assertion that the Gov¬ 
ernment had been "inexcusably 
apathetic". 

The safety and protection of 
spectators and of those whose 
lives are affected by football 
matches has been at the fore¬ 
front of the Government’s con¬ 
cerns for many years. We have 
worked with the football 
authorities to implement mea¬ 
sures to that end. 

In 1987 we agreed a package 
of measures with them which 
included the preparation pf local 
phmn in consultation with the 
local police and the local au¬ 
thority about how best to handle 
football matches, the use of aU- 
ticket arrangements and of 
dosed-circuit television surveil¬ 
lance of grounds, the promotion 
of family enclosures and vol¬ 
untary membership schemes. 
We are now working with the 
football authorities, the police 
qnH the Italian authorities on 
preparation for the World Cup 
final* this summer. 

Tn ad ditio n the Government 
has legislated on a nu mber of 
occasions in the interests of 
safety and public order 

• to control the sale and 
consumption of alcohol 

• to clarify and strengthen 
existing legislation on public 
order 

• to introduce a new offence 
of hool ig a n i s m 

London favoured 

From Mr Leslie Gale 
Sir, One wonders why a sports¬ 
man playing for a dub m the 
London area appears ««"■**¥£ 
to have a distinct advantage m 
international selection over one 
playing for a provincial dub- 
Specially if it happens to be a 
West Country dufc 

Jack Russell, of Gloucester 
shire, had long earned 
reputation, amongst 
keepers and umpires, of h»jW 
foe finest wicketkee^sr m ^ 
country, yet the England sefec- 
tors continued for a consfo- 
eiable period to ignore this and 

sdeettia man 

from Middlesex- amibi 

In rugby circles m ore rcre^ 

SfmooHaltfda* °f Bal h?tSS 

out because his 

allocated to a Waspsp^yCT. 

"fej-SV.iEBid- 

chosen to stand 


• to introduce exclusion 
orders 

• io implement major safety 
recommendations in the 
Popplewell report 

• to enable the courts to 
prevent convicted hooligans 
from travelling to matches 
abroad. 

We have also established a 
National Football Intellige nc e 
Unit to coordinate police initia¬ 
tives against football hooligans 
at home and abroad. This is a 
record of action not apathy, but 
the Government cannot cure all 
of football's problems for it. The 
essential message of Lord Jus¬ 
tice Taylor’s r e p o r t is that 
football must at last face up to 
its own responsibilities. I en¬ 
dorse that message. 

Yoon faithfully, 

COLIN MOYNIHAN, 
Department of the 
Environment, 

2 Marsham Street. SW1. 

From Mr Ian MacDonald 
Sir, 1 am concerned at the 
proposals that certain levels of 
football win only be permissible 
in all-seated stadiums. 

Having recently spent a mis¬ 
erable afternoon seated on the 
cold, hard, uncomfortable 
benches of New Kilbowie Park. 
Clydebank, among a sparse 
crowd of around 800, I am 
definitely against this type of 
stadium, as are many of my 
fellow supporters who stood at 
the back of the seating for the 
whole game. I would add that K 
have spent a similarly un¬ 
comfortable tinreat lbrox Farit, 
the stadium now revered by 
many so-called experts as the 
s tprfinni of the future. 

For more <han one hundred 

Accurate passing 

From Mr A. Willey mm 
Sir, Clive White’s article. “The 
benefits of forward thinking” 
(January 20), in which he at¬ 
tempts to extol the virtues of 
forward thinking as postulated 
by Graham Taylor, the current 
Aston Villa manager, provides 
vet another example of the 
extent to which the avenge 


SSceSy 

5?$* me pw« " bo ro05t 

teserves recogniuoh- 
fours sincere^ _ 

.ESLIE D, GALE, 

4*Woodlnnd Avenue, 

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go to delude an unsuspecting 
oubtic into the belief that soccer 
kt professional level is a senes of 
moves and counter-moves 
determined by manager-coacb- 
player consultations and pre- 
match practice. 

What in Heaven s n a me can 
one make of Taylor’s assertion 
that he bought Gordon Cowans, 

the ex-Bari Italian League mid¬ 
field player, some short tune ago 
on the basis of “just three 
fruitless passes” the player had 
made in one game ra Italy 
during Taylor’s match-play 
surveillance. Says Taylor: I 
could picture us getting some¬ 
one on the end of them.” 

But there » wise to follow. 

The Villa manager—referring to 
Hjc gweemesss ofCbwsas's pac¬ 
ing ability - asserts that be 
(Taylor) could "tern his back 
upon half a dozen Villa pbyas 
and ask them to hit a ball 30 
.-ad* and he would be able to 
teiL Just from the sound (my 
italics), which ball had been 
struck by Cowans.” 

The absurdity of Taylors 
comments in relation to baB- 
oassing accuracies or inacco- 
jneies during Football League 


yean, on this island and in other 
countries, people have stood to 
cheer their heroes, and crowds 
fer greater than those attending 
present-day football crammed 
the grounds to capacity. In this 
time there have been only a 
handftil of major incidents 
involving multiple deaths and. 
while no death zs acceptable, in 
most of the incidents, human 
error, or foiling, has played a 
considerable part. 

By all means cut the capac¬ 
ities of grounds if this will help, 
and this should not prove 
problematical as capacity 
crowds are few and for between 
these days. However, I fed that 
this clamour for all-seated stadi¬ 
ums has resulted from an over- 
reaction by the authorities. 

A further point that does not 

seem to have been touched upon 
is that while ati-seater stadiums 
may be fine in southern Europe 
and other countries whb better 
cl imatic conditions than our 
own, if they are to become the 
norm in Britain they wfl] require 
to be provided with sliding roofs 
as there is nothing worse than 
sitting on. wet seats in driving 
rain or snow. 

Some pundits say foal stand¬ 
ing at football is merely a habit, 
and a bad one at that. However, 
it has been the way to watch 
football in the four home coun¬ 
ties and in northern Europe in 
the past hundred years and. if 
the fans are given their say, 
would no doubt remain so for 
the next hundred years. 

Yours in sport, 

IAN M. MacDONALD. 
117CahmhilI Road, 

Airdrie, Lanarkshire. 


club matches is made crystal 
dear only by ball possession 
analysis. For example, in a first 
division game between Aston 
Villa and Everton last Novem¬ 
ber, won 6-2 by Villa, they bad 
125 and 120 bail possessions 
respectively in each half! Of 
these figures only seven and 
twelve moves proceeded be¬ 
yond the third consecutive pass, 

while 54snd 42 ball possessions 
broke down on the fust pass: 45 
and 52 on the second, and 19 
and 14 on the third- Everton 
followed a similar pattern. 
Yours faithfully, 

A. WILLEY, 

105 Rawmarsh HiH, 

Parkgaie, 

Rotherham, South Yorkshire. 

Alive and kicking 

From Colonel J. Milne 
Sir, Contrary to Chris Moore's 
report (January 11) British luge 
is alive and kicking. We have an 
Army team is Germany who are 
representing the UK on the 
international B circuit and next 
year they will graduate on to the 
A cir c u it We have a s tr uctur e d 
long-term plan which should 
take us to the 1992 Olympics. 
AD this has been done in 
conjunction with, but sepa ra te 
from, the British Racing Tobog¬ 
gan Association, so although 
they have no money we are 
fortunate to have oar own 
sponsors and therefore can con- 
tin DC sliding. Rest assured, we 
continue to fiy the nation's flag. 
J. MILNE, 

Chairman, Army Luge, 

West Germany. 


Pernicious rule 
by television 

From Mr P.EJL Brooker 
Sir, At Highbury last Saturday it 
was announced that the game 
aggrnsi Nottingham Forest, doe 
to be played on February 10, 
would be postponed bcause of 
that club's involvement in the 
Littlewoods Cup; foir enough. It 
was also announced that the 
game against Liverpool, due to 
be played on February 24. had 
been rescheduled to Wednes¬ 
day, April 18. The reason for 
this — television. ITV have 
derided that they may be able to 
manufeemre something like last 
season's unforgettable climax to 
the Leagne season, so they 
rearrange things io suit them¬ 
selves. 

The first resuh of this is that 
there is now no scheduled first- 
team match at Highbury until 
Saturday, March 17, a gap of 
seven weeks. What cynical dis¬ 
regard for the regular paying 
supporters. Furthermore, the 
kick-off of the Liverpool match 
is set for 8.05pm. which means 
that by the time it is over the 
available public transport will 
have dwindled to its miserable 
minimum. Many fi»« will be 
unable to attend this top match 
because ofthe rescheduling. 

Just who are these people wbo 
can ride roughshod over estab¬ 
lished situations? Has the Foot¬ 
ball League abrogated its right to 
compile the fixture list? Will the 
television companies do this 
from now on? (The answer is 
obviously yes, bat only for those 
clubs ITV consider to be the top 
ones; the rest are irrelevant to 
their schedu l es.) 

The penurious effects of rule 
by television are already becom¬ 
ing apparent in our domestic 
game: God help the football fan 
when the 1994 World Cup is 
staged in the United States by 
even more powerful television 
companies who do not even 
know what the game is about 
Yours, 

P.EL BROOKER, 

30 Hamilton Close, 

Bricket Wood, 

St Albans, 

Hertfordshire: 

literary preference 

From Mr PJL Oliver 
Sir, Cathartic ejaculations may 
well be essential for sports aces 
under extreme stress. But why 
cannot they train themselves to 
use literary, rather than poten¬ 
tially offensive, anatomical epi¬ 
thets? Olivier’s "Himmelkreuz- 
donnerwmer" (Ratugan) made 
him feel better without upset¬ 
ting Marilyn. Garbo's 
Ninotchka let fly with 
“Krashnovida which few 
could spell, understood, or 
deemed offensive, 1£ like Dodie 
Smith’s child in Dear Octopus, a 
tennis star were to appeal to 
"District Nurse", the umpire 
might fed baffled, but could 
scarcely default him. 

Yours faithfully. 

P.R. OLIVER, 

Bridge Cottage, 

Little Petberidr, 

Wadebridge, 

CornwalL 


Sports Letters may be sent 
by fax to 01-782 5046 


Violence needs other penalties 


From Mr JJJ. Griffin 
Sir. There is a very simple, but 
effective, counter-measure for 
violence by rugby players which 
could quickly be introduced by 
appropriate rule changes into 
both codes of the game. 

When a penalty is awarded for 
dirty play, let the kick be taken 
not where the offence takes 
place but in front of the 
ofending side's posts. Violent 
players will soon incur the wrath 
of team-mates if their tbuggish 
actions more easily risk the loss 
of a cup-tie. or important 
rekgation/promotion points, or 
— in rugby league — a winning 
bonus. 

Such wrath, on top of existing 
punishments for misdemean¬ 
ours, should quickly curb any 
appetite for foul play which is 
quite unnecessary in what are — 
without violence — hard, phys¬ 
ical sports. 

Yours faithfully, 

J.B. GRIFFIN. 

9 Oakwood Drive, 

Leigh, Lancashire. 
rrom Mr R. W.F. Sampson 
Sir. As one who had the good 
fortune to play rugby at all 
levels, I agree that the time has 
come to reverse the alarming, 
increasing incidence of players 
bring sent off! 

Rugby union is becoming 
more and more professional 
with squad sessions, team man¬ 
agers, team coaches and training 
sessions, eta, plus allowable 
fringe payments not far away. 
When a player is sent off there is 
an inquest involving admin¬ 
istrators, the referee and, in top- 
level games, the touch judges, 
plus the television replays. 

If there are no extenuating 
circumstances I would like to 
see: 

1. The player banned for at 
least 12 weeks. 

2. The player never again to 

be considered for inclusion in 
international, county, district, 
or top-level representative 
games. In fact, confined to club 
only. _ 

3. The player wbo is sent off a 
second time should be banned 
for life. 

During my playing days 
(1936-50) the worst offence 
frequently committed was barg¬ 
ing in the lineout. Referees 
differed in their interpretation 
of that law. Recently 1 received a 
fetter from a friend who was 
capped 16 tunes from 1947 
onwards by t=«gi*nd and is now 
an adminstrator. 1 quote: "I still 
remember the fun of playing 
with you in Hylton Cleaver’s 
XV; the Barbarians, eta, and 
that’s today’s missing element; 
funT 

Yours sincerely, 

R.W.F. SAMPSON, 

Dinnet, 

Haselmerc Road, 

KflmaGOtm, 

Renfrewshire. 

From Mr Ralph M. Browning 
Sir, The principal atm of the 
authorities and players in rugby 
union is now to provide an 
exerting spectacle for the thou¬ 
sands who attend the m atc h es, 
and the milli ons who watch on 
television. The authorities have 
a further objective, in that they 
must inmate dangerous and 
violent play on the field. 

The present solution of send¬ 
ing off an offending player, with 
a subsequent punishment which 


depends very largely on the 
mood of the national authority, 
seems very short-sighted and 
unproductive, in that the referee 
hands the match chi a plate to 
one of the teams, and the game 
as a spectacle becomes one¬ 
sided. The offending player 
leaves with some hope of etting 
off lightly. 

A solution which would meet 
both of the objectives men¬ 
tioned earlier would be that 

1) the offending player would 
be sent off the field with a 
statutory six-month ban, subject 
to confirmation by an inter¬ 
national disciplinary com¬ 
mittee: This would certainly 
deter individual players from 
violence. 

2) a replacement would be 
allowed for the player who has 
been sent offi fans ensuring that 
the punishment is not meted out 
to the remaining 14 players, and 
the quality of the spectacle is 
maintained. F ur ther m ore, the ' 
referee would not carry the 
odium of wrecltingthegame by 
sending a player off. 

Yours faithfully, 

RALPH BROWNING, 

Flat 7, 

81 Onslow Square, SW7. 

From Dr Ben Ross 
Sir, Kevin Moseley’s chib coach 
is reported (January 23), as 
having said, "instead of waiting j 
a few days for him to get bis act 
together, they have kicked him ; 
when he is down”. 

Attempting to kick his man 
when he was down is precisely 
Moseley’s offence. 

Yours sincerely, 

BEN ROSS, 

38 Wykeham Way, 

Burgess Hid, 1 

West Sussex. I 


McEnroe canght 

From Mr Derek Howell 
Sir. At last the argument is 
settled as to whether John 
McEnroe effects his outbursts 
deliberately or just cannot help 
himself 

By his own admission (Janu¬ 
ary 22), if be had known that the 
rules had been changed to three 
stages and not four before bring 
defaulted, he probably would 
not have thrown tbe racket. 

So now we all know he went 
as far as be could every time, 
and only got caught because he 
was not up with the rule 

Yours faithfully, 

DEREK HOWELL, 

866 Chelsea Cloister, 

Skvanc Avenue. SW3. 

A losing wager 

From Mr Colin Cave 
Sir, Perhaps I can hrip deflect 
Mrs Jenny Pitman’s suspicions 
of foul play regarding her horse 
Danny Harrold at Leicester 
(report, January 31) with a 
much less sinister explanation 
for finishing a well beaten 
second. 

I bad wagered £5 with a 
reputable turf accountant that it 
would win. 

Yours faithfully, 

COLIN CAVE, 

2 Heathfidd Rise, 

Rishworth, 

Halifax, West Yorkshire. 


SPORT 

BOXING 


Honeyghan vows 
to lay bad hands 
on a triple crown 

By Srikamar Sen, Boxing Correspondent 


Even with “had hands**, Lloyd 
Hsoeyghan vowed yesterday to 
become die first Britos to win 
the world title three times when 
he rf»aiiMark Breland, 
the World Boxing Association 
welterweight champion, on 
March 3 in London. 

Speaking Am hb training 
rmap near MhnS tm a trans- 
afhmtlc telephone Oak, Hooey- 
gken revealed to a press 
conference is London that his 
old hand injuries had smfaced in 
training. WhBe they woold af¬ 
fect serious sparring from now- 
on, they would not get in the way 
of reathing Ms ambition. 

“Yesterday 1 was sp arrin g 
and my hand hadn't been too 
bad. Then bang, bang. Bang and 
the gay started to wobble and so 
ffid my hand. I won't be using it 
in the gym because I hare got to 
save it for the fight,** 
Honeyghan said. 

AO the same, he di s mi s sed 
Breland as an overrated boxer 
and Aiiiiwi that the Olympic 
cham pi on wonkl not be able to 
stand v t® pressure. “His 
booting ability Is overrated,** 
Honeyghan said. “He’s an oo- 
top fighter. When die pressure is 
on hfan he falls apart. After three 
or fo u r r ounds he seems to panic. 
At the later stages the fight will 
be in my favonr. His legs seem to 
gp and aD he does is grab you. 
I'm going to b ecome the first 
British fighter to win the world 
tide three times.” 

Honeyghan, wbo suffers from 
arthritis of the hand, maintained 
that this boat was not jnst a big 
pay-day before retireme nt . His 
infiiries would not stand in his 

SQUASH RACKETS 

Leaders 
far from 


way. He was nsed to boating with 
hynries. 

He said that two days before 
he met Hence Shnfford he had 
damaged a friHag* in bis hw*w 
and a few days before meeting 
Don Curry, when be lifted the 
world tide, he injmed his hands. 
Hand trouble fid not stop him 
from knocking out Gene 

Hatcher in one roand. 

He claimed that his defeat by 
Marion Starling was not due to 
hb bands but to being unsettled 
as a result of being “wound up” 
by Starting. He bad learnt his 
lesson and woald not be upset by 
any bad-mouthing by Breland. 

Honcyghan's manager, 
Mickey Dnffi speaMng from 
New York, said that Honeyghan 
had had no trouble with punch¬ 
ing in his last boat, even though 
he had not been given pain¬ 
killers. But Honeyghan, 

Duff did not underrate Breland. 
Ac c or di n g to Dnff Breland has 
~ponad for pound" Che hardest 
patch In the world apart from 
Mike Tyson and John MugabL 

One hopes that Honeyghan 
will be more successful in his 
challenger's role than Duff was 
aodltioaiiig for a part in Rocky V 
In New York. But for from being 
disappointed. Duff was glad be 
was not successful. For be had 
been given the role of a crooked 
m anager and did not want it. 

“They gave me something to 
read and 1 realized I was playing 

tbe part of a crooked fight 
manager and am delighted to say 
I did not read the part too welL 
There goes my film career.” 
Doff said. 

GOLF 

Striking a 
bond with 


leisurely Connery 


By Cotin McQuillan 

Village Leisure Holds, the sur¬ 
prise early leaders of the Pimm’s 
premier league, returned to the 
championship battle this week 
with a resounding 5-0 victory 
over Allsports Northern in 
Manchester. Playing on hastily 
borrowed courts at Grove Park 
Squash Chib after an arson 
attack put tike Allsports courts at 
tbe Northern Lawn Tennis Club 
out of action. Village Leisure 
moved GcoffWiUiams to fourth 
string and brought in die much- 
improved Scot, Colin Keith, at 
the bottom of the order. 

While league attention was 
focused upon wfaat seemed to be 
the influential top-of-tbe-taWe 
match in London, where Leekes 
Welsh Wizards kept their 
leadership but lost their un¬ 
defeated record 2-3 to UTC 
Cannons, the subtiely 
straightened Manchester squad 
quietly moved back into striking 
distance in second place. 

Ironically, Cannons could 
provide Vifl^e Leisure with dx 
vital lift into contention against 
the Cardiff team. Next week the 
London team must travel to 
Manchester lacking their two 
top players, Del Hams and Ross 
Norman, who are committed to 
tbe Mennen Cup in Toronto. 
Norman’s 50-minute 3-1 win 
over Adrian Davies at second 
string was tbe crucial factor in 
the Cannons win over Wizards, 
and Harris, although brushed 
aside by Chris Robertson, 
strengthens the lower order by 
his mere presence at first string. 

Unless UTC are willing to pay 
bonuses that could amount to 
more than £20.000 to tempt 
Harris and Norman away from 
their lucrative Canadian trip. 
Cannons will face the resurgent 
Village Leisure team with their 
normally well-protected lower 
order leading the line. 

RESULTS: Attporta Wortham a Wfaga 
Latare Hows ft Embassy Edgbeston i 



From Patricia Davies 
Pebble Beach 

According to the man on the 
radio, tbe SI,000,000 AT&T 
Pebble Beach national pro-am 
tournament, which starts today 
on the Monterey Peninsula, is 
“the world's finest golf tour¬ 
nament” . Hyperbole, of course. 
What it could be is the world's 
best golf party, bigger and more 
fun than the Masters with 180 
professionals and 180 amateurs 
involved, many of them mega 
celebrities, and three courses, 
the real stars of the show. 

It is also less sedate than 
Augusta, more chaotic or. since 
this is California, perhaps the 
word should be laid-back. For 
instance, Sandy Lyle wandered 
on to the practice ground at 
Pebble Beach on Monday, en¬ 
countered a Scotsman who is 
still known as Big Tam in parts 
of Edinburgh, and politely 
asked: “Who are you playing 
with?” “Dunno,” came the de- 
Scoticized response. “Who are 
you with?" “Dunno,” Lyle said. 
"Perhaps we could play 
together." 

They made enquiries and. no 
just cause or impediment being 
found to keep them apart, 
teamed up. It should prove a 
good bond in more than one 
respect, for Lyle's pick-up part¬ 
ner. a certain Sean Connery, is a 
mean 12 handicapper. 

The pros, fresh from the sun 
and artificiality of three weeks 
of low scoring in tbedesm, have 
to adjust to the realities of 
proper golf at Pebble Beach. 
Cypress Point and Spyglass Hill, 
not easy courses even if the 
weather is benign, which it 
threatens not to be this week. 

It has been raining, something 
tbe area needs after three years 
of drought, and cold, damp and 
wind are great allies of par, a 
score that has been treated with 
contempt so far this season. 
Bernhard Langer, allowed to 
play in only five “ordinary” 
American events now that be 
has resigned from the tour, is 
bene and has ranked all three 
courses in his top 10. 


TODAY’S FIXTURES 


FOOTBALL 

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W w ld nai i (a wa w ni tp n e ) - 

OTHER SPORT 

BASKETBALL: Caitebarg Lhbbk 
S unoariand v Manehssttr (Sfa. 

BOWLS; Yatkjn Trophy (woawrfa nat¬ 
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Teeastie v Yortc Boston v City of By; 
County Arts A v Ease* Coiatty. Picketts 
Lock v DB&borougfK Rugby Thomfleld w 
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Worthing v East Dorset A; Notthawon v 
Torbay. 

SQUASH RACKETS: Guernsey Open (St 
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SPORT 


THE TIMES THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1 1990 


RUGBY UNION: SCOTLAND’S McGEECHAN ON HOW ENGLISH VARIATION CAN BEAT THE ENIGMA OF FRANCE 


POINT-TO-POINT 


Lions coach advises 
England to hustle 
and bustle in Paris 


MARCASPLAND 


By David Hands, Ragby Correspondent 


“The French are an enigma. I vulnerable as anyone,” Mc- 
th ink they will be a very Geechan said. “This is where 


difficult side to beat, whatever self-esteem comes in. You 
the circumstances." Ian Mo must believe you can play well 


Geechan, coach to last year’s against them and one of the 
victorious British Isles and in pleasing things of that game in 


his second season as coach of Paris was the way we took the 
Scotland, speaks as much game by the scruff of the neck. 


experience 


“We tend to knock players 


present form and with all the down in Britain rather than 
wariness that the 1980s have build them up.That is why I 


induced in coaches through- felt certain things were im~ 


out the four home unions. ^ portant in Australia with the 


This weekend it is England’s Lions because I wanted play- 
turn to visit the Fare des era to be as high in their own 
Princes and play a French esteem as possbie, and in the 
team with Sage Blanco re- esteem of others. We still have 


Australia, and it is his conten¬ 
tion that ibis year’s five 
nations’ championship will 
benefit as a spectade because 
of the lions' experience. “I 
was encouraged by the first 
weekend of the champ¬ 
ionship," he said. 

“You get such commitment 
from each side involved, you 
can never be sure how the 
games will unfold. But there 
seems to be an aura of 


stored to fitness and Franck some way to go here before we 
Mesnd free from suspension, achieve that atmosphere. 


England, though, have as “In New Zealand they have 
muds reason to feel confident a greater selfesteem because 


there as any, since five of their rugby is more important to 
team played in the Four Home them. AD Blacks are seen as 


Unions XV which beat France slightly different people. They 
29-27 last October (a sixth, come through a more compet- 


David Egerton, is a replace- itrve infrastructure and they 
mem and a seventh, Andy are encouraged to think for 


Robinson, cannot make this themselves at every level. 


year’s championship squad), whereas our players are only 


“If you can deny them the encouraged to stint thinking at 
ball, deny them room and take the highest level.” 


the game to them aO the time, McGeechan coached the 
make them chase as we did in Four Home Unions XV, a 


October, then they may prove partial reunion of his Lions in 


Fouroux hopes for 
showcase match 


The French rugby coach, 
Jacques Fouroux, last night 
called for Saturday's five na¬ 
tions* championship match 
against England m Paris to 


By Peter Bills 

coach, ers for foul play. Fouroux and 


a willingness to express them- 
setves, even in the close- 
quarters stuff” 

Though the Scots are not 
unknown for the depth of thear 
back-row talent, McGeechan 
points to the quality at En¬ 
gland’s disposal, in that none 
of Saturday’s trio appeared in 
last season’s championship 
side. “Having said that. Dean 
Richards is unique and Eng¬ 
land wifl not be able to replace 
hirp totally. 

“They w33 obviously miss 
his driving power, though 
Mike Teague wifl add empha¬ 
sis to their back row." 
McGeechan is too diplomatic 
to comment on England's use 
of Teague as a No. 8, prefer¬ 
ring instead to enjoy the re- 
emergence in Scotland’s cause 
of DerekTurnbull from injury 
and Adam Bucban-Snuth’s 
increased maturity. This gives 
him cover on both sides of the 
scrum behind Saturday’s 
flankers a gain«f Ireland at 


the French want no repeat of A Jrf 

incidents such as the one in Lansdowne Road, John Jef- 
which the Lourdes prop, Jean frey and Finlay Gilder. 


Pierre Garuet, was sent off by 


reflect the greatest traditions of Clive Nor ling in a France 


the game: 

Fouroux. speaking less than a 
fortnight after the sending-off of 
the Welsh lock forward, Kevin 
Moseley, during the inter- 
national at Cardiff said that the 
game must be a model for the 
sport. 


against Ireland match in Paris 
some years ago. 

Fouroux has instilled in his 


“It means you can start 
thinking about horses for 
courses, but yon-can only do 
that ifyou have a strong squad 


players that discipline is of and a good understanding 



Times series again 
provides chance 
for young hopefuls 


By Brian Bed 

Tbc Times Championship series 


of point-to-point races. m 
its fourth season, m\l agaxnmjs 
■year comprise 27 qualifying 
events in which the first three to 

finish will be eligible to enter for 
the final, run at Towcesterover 
3m 190yds on Friday May 25. 

This successful competition 
starts in earnest on March 24, 
die eighth week of the season, 
only three races being run pron¬ 
to this date. In one of these, at 
the Vale of Chattwr on February 
24. David Llewellyn’s Spartan 
Lemon win have another chance 

of qualifying* 

The seven-year-old mare 
started favourite in last year's 
final, but she did not take weU to 
the suffer National Hunt fences 
and finished fifth. To reach the 
final Spartan Lemon came sec¬ 
ond in the Llantwjt Major 
qualifier, so as a non-winner of 
an open race she is able to re* 
q ualif y this season. 

Once a ho rse h as been 
successful in a restricted open 
race it must move up in class. 
Owners, therefore,, when plan¬ 
ning their campaign, do not 
have an easy task m finding a 
race which qualifies their chaige 
to enter the final. 

In consequence, it is usual for 
the majority of runners at 
Towcester to come from hones 
that start the season as makfens- 

Special efforts will be made to 
find races for the good crop of 
last year’s youngsters looking 
assured of early successes in 
199a Of these, in the North, 
EUerion Hill may be the pick. 

The six-year-old, trained by 
Jeamrie Brown, had only one 
point-to-point appearance last 
season when he won a division 
of the Derwent maiden race, 
under Howard Brown, in pre¬ 
cisely the same time as the open 
race winner, Co march. Unfortu¬ 
nately, howev er , there is not a 
Times race in his area until the 
Staintondale on April 16. 

Nine days earlier, the Black- 
more & Sparkfoid Vale will 
afford the opportunity for the 
locally-trained Spiticulate. Hav¬ 
ing won a maiden in 1988, the 
Spitzburgen gelding. on his only 
outing last campaign, won an 
eariy^eason adjacent race at 


paramount importance. His 
players seem to agree. The 
French outside half; Franck 
Mesnel. said: “I am sure than 


“What happened in Cardiff will be 30 gentlemen on the 


was unfortunate. So with that in 
mind let us be dispassionate in 
debating Saturday's match 
against England because rugby 
is a game played between gentle¬ 
men.” he said. 

“We in France want this to be 
a perfect afternoon for rugby. 
That is what matters before talk 
of winning and achieving 
championships. The outstand¬ 
ing spirit in which the French 
were received at Twickenham 
last year is the way this game 
must go. It is essential for all 
those who see Saturday’s match 
that a fine spectacle is provided. 
And discipline by the players is 
important” 

The French are aware that the 
message in the lengthy suspen¬ 
sion of Moseley is that the 
game's authorities will folly 
support refe r e e s punishing play- 


pitch. It is certainly important 
for rugby that that is the case.” 

After the England victory 
ow the French at Twick¬ 
enham, last season, the French 
have a deep respect for English 
rugby. Patrice Lagisquet, the 
scorer of an outstanding in¬ 
dividual try against Wales two 
weeks ago, believes the manner 
in which England have devel¬ 
oped their game threatens 10 
years of French ascendancy in 
the five nations’ championship. 

“For too long, England played 
only with their forwards. But 
now players like Carling. 
Gascon and Underwood have 
enabled them to play a more 
attacking game and it makes 
them a for more dangerous side. 
A team with players of such 
talent playing 13-man rugby is a 
certain threat”. 


Gesture of 
peace to 
Richmond 


with them. You have to know 
your players very well 
because, after all, in the play¬ 
er’s eyes a cap is a cap and that 
is solely what be is aiming fin-. 
It gives a coach flexibility in 
his approach to different 
games but you have to have a 
lot of trust among the people 
involved." 

Despite Ireland's collapse 
a gains t Fn gland . McGeechan 
believes he win have no 
difficulty lifting his Scots for 
their opening champion sh i p 
game in Dublin. “Away wins 
are still few and for between. 
You only have to look at what 
happened in the fiist 60 
minutes of Ireland’s game at 
Twickenham. The Irish could 
have bad 12 or 13 points on 
the board, playing the same 
way, if the ball bad gone the 
other side of the posts.” 


Tackled: tire Cambridge right wing, Bell, is stopped by the Royal Navy left wing, Phillips 


Point-toA-point 

Championship 


Nedge. under Ron TreHogea. 

Gulf Of Gold was in the frame 
four tunes, as a five-year-old, for 
his owner-rider, Miles Watson. 
One of these included a win at 
tbe Burton in the maiden, three 
weeks after Richard RusaelTs 


Teaplanter bad him by 

half a length in tbe corres¬ 


ponding event at tbe Pytcfaky. 
These two could renew then- 
rivalry at the Grove & R afford 
at Thorpe on March 24. 

David Nicholson's assistant, 
Mickey Hams, is again likely to 
partner Shadow Walker, on 
whom he won a division of tbe 
North Ledbury The 

impro v ement he showed in each 
race should contiue as he ma¬ 
tures — he is still only six — and 
he could be in the lineop at the 
earliest possible occasion, the 
North Hereford in three weeks’ 
time. 

The ex-Irish Sambuka Boy was 
given a gentle introduction to 
the sport last year by his trainer, 
Graham Pidgean. He went into 
every punter's notebook after 
his comfortable win in a maiden 
at Kimble. If he has not ruled 
himself out of the event by 
winning beforehand, his own 
hunt, tbe Grafton, has a quali¬ 
fier on the last Saturday in 
March. 

Other impressive maiden race 
winners in 1989 included 
Ahatin, Baffinland ^ Brother 
MkhaeL In the West Country, 
Pastoral Pride and Near Ex¬ 
change will be making their 
presence felt as will Hubba in 
the South and New Lord from 
tbeCotwokb. 

But with a new batch of 
youngsters about to emerge on 
to the scene, who knows what 
stars of the future may be among 
them? 


Alcock talks Navy through Pates for The Times qualifiers 

w ■“ *- 44. Hnrfh *■- J nmiifM.l t. as. ■■ - . 


By Michael Austin 


Cambridge Univ--8 

Royal Navy~„~._ 14 


Stonyhurst finish in 
spectacular fashion 


By Michael Stevenson 


A gesture by London Scottish 
should help heal any wounds in 
the relationship with Rich¬ 
mond, their co-tenants at the 
Athletic Ground (David Hands 
writes). The clubs were drawn at 


Stonyhurst.._™56 

Merchant Taylors’_0 


Stonyhurst. having lost only to 
Mount St Mary’s. Ampteforth, 
and Christ College. Brecon, to 
set against 13 wins, have en- 


home in t^ Courage Oubs 

Championship. Richmond’s «d of which they celebrated in 


second-division game with 
Liverpool St Helens was played 
on the main pitch and the 
Exiles' third-division game with 
Exeter on the second XV pitch. 

London Scottish, has offered 
first use of the ground to 
Richmond for their Pilkington 
Cup fourth-round tie against 
Sale on February 10, and the 
Scots will play Harlequins at the 
Stoop memorial Ground. 


• The Welsh merit table dubs 
have agreed a formula for the 
formation of two senior di¬ 
visions in next season's pro¬ 
posed national league. Three 
years' finishing positions, 
including this season, in the 
merit table will determine the 10 
clubs to make up the premier 
division and right in the first 
division. 


spectacular fashion with victory 
over Merchant Taylors*. 

The game was played in thick 
mud and a chill wind, which 
made tbe bravura of 
Slonyhurst's handling the more 
remarkable. Only one member 
of this team will return next 
season, but none of the side will 
lack memories of the pleasure 
that tbe style of rugby played 
this winter has given them. 

Tbe most crucial ingredient of 
an exciting side, is the handling 
expertise of their England 
halves. Bracken and Gradillas. 

Merchant's, outpaced both in 
the pack and outside it, kept the 
score to reasonable proportions 
(16-0) up to the interval but 
their tackling and work rate, 
apart from the fly-half Campbell 
and the hooker Coats, deteri¬ 
orated in the second half. 


Stooyhuist's first try came 
from a tap penalty. Anderson 
and Hayhurst, who had a 
magnificent game, handled flu¬ 
ently before Whitfield crashed 
over. O’Doherty set up the 
second; he fed Kay. who broke 
incisively and timed the scoring 
pass beautifully to Falzon. 
Bracken convened both. Ko’s 
try shortly after, which was 
made by the speed and enter¬ 
prise of O'Doherty, accounted 
for tbe interval lead. 

In the second half, as the 
visitors willed. Stonyhurst's 
handling, orchetrated by 
Gradillas, was often breath¬ 
taking, as the traffic became 
wholly one way and the points 
proliferated. 


Cambridge could field only six 
of the team which overwhelmed 
the Royal Air Force 49-7 the 
previous week and succumbed 
to the muscle power of the 
Royal Navy at Grange Road 
yesterday. 

The Cambridge scrummage 
listed throughout but the in¬ 
genuity of Booth, whipping 
away passes at speed, kept them 
afloat during a frantic match on 
a raw afternoon. 

While tbe Royal Navy con¬ 
centrated on the forward grind 
until releasing their backs late in 
the game. Cambridge sensibly 
ran at every opportunity in an 
annual fixture with a striking 
change in tbe recent balance of 
results. 

The Royal Navy won for the 
fifth time in the past six 
meetings, compared with six 
previous defeats in a row. 

They have suffered only one 
defeat in five matches this 


season and possess a talkative 
full back and captain in Alcock. 

He linked tellingly with bis 
ihreequarters and appropriately 
scored tbe match-winning try 
with nine minutes remaining 
when be executed a well-timed 
loop with Speakman. the right 
wing, and banded off Davies to 
plunge over at tbe corner. 

Bryant, who scored tries from 
a tapped penalty and then from 
a scrum, was another definitive 
figure for the Royal Navy, 
whose goaWdcker, KelletL suf¬ 
fered almost as severely as 
Johnson, of Cambridge, in the 

swirling wind. 

Kellett landed one kick, ironi¬ 
cally a touchline conversion, 
from four attempts and Johnson 
missed all five on bis debut, but 
gained considerable ground 
with punts to touch. 


Allen, a busy flanker, jinked (Bwttiamstal and S i John's). P D«t» 
his way over for Cambridge’s 
first try following an ambitious uret? 


Cambridge, bpfcj n g four play¬ 
ers on representative doty for 
various England teams this 
weekend, fed twice and appre¬ 
ciated the nomadic qualities of a 
back-row which helped the 
Light Blues to victory over 
Oxford in the inaugural unden¬ 
ts match two months ago. 

SCORERS: Can TO rtd aa Unh —tt r - TM—: i 
Afar. Johnson. HoyaJMavy: Warn: Bryant 
(2*. Alcock. CouvanlBic KsBau. 
C A M BIB O GC UMVERSTY: A MoH H 
(Warwick and Magdalena); *8 M (Edto- 
burgh Acad and Clara; rap: S Jamaa 
(Moranoum and Hughes Han). *P Used 
(Oundle and Magdalene). S Branorar 
(Wyngaston VI Form Coa and Emmanuel). 
~0 Osvfs* rpencoed and Magdalene); S 
Johnson [RGS Newcastle and Mag- 
daHne). *A Borah (Bishop Gore and 
Ifcighee HdQ; J Tenant (Btoxham and St 
Ednwnd'a). *J Ashworth (George Fox, 
Lancaster and Homertorv. rapt). OM art o o - 
Jonas ( Ma rtha ro ugh and Magdalene). R 
Jenkins (OuvSe and Downing). M Omnia 
(BadcweH am Queens’). -A Macdonald 
(Gordonskxm and Hughes Hal). N Allan 
(BerWaansted and Si JolnTa). p Davis 
fnw Campion School and Chari*). 


February 24: North I te rated (WNMck April 14: Nafe Starts ttat (Stmdon); 
Manors Vate erf CMt*r(ErwUx)). liS«y(MSroroSrtiJ. 

Match tfc Cro h n da te Mm (Horaah ra tt fr April 16 c Siatortomtete rWykeham); Vine 
March 2* Chow A Rutted (Thorpek and Oman (Hacfcwood Part* 

Match ffc C att atot* (Be a ntentei); Apt 2fc Barks and Bocks (Kkroton 

S3E3ST" **”*"*■ jgsse****-**^ 

April 7: Beraoh(Garthorpek Bte cfc rao ra A May & r amie (OnteaYt LaadanraM 

a w unmoor povtskxxj. Mav 7: Enflald Chaca (Norttaok What 

A pril li fe Cheshire Foxhounds smaiWtogla^ (wennw* wan 

<A ‘ prahaH * May wiiaM^nl (Eyton-orvSavam). 


Bonanza Boy early 
National favoimte 


By PM McLennan 


45 yard move involving John- ksml LtRmS pwta slt b Nicholas, 
son. Bell and Macdonald from a lt c Monte powhtRj Hirst, laea r 


IS PMte SLT B Nicholas. 
POWHTR J Hirst LAEA R 


the other which owed much to 
Booth's brisk pass from a 
retreating scrum. 


S Jones. SgtMRaoca. 
■RaMraaeB Procter. 

* A blue 


Bonanza Boy. the dual Welsh 
National winner, was installed 
12-1 favourite with Ladbrokes 
for tbe Seagram Grand National 
following yesterday’s publica¬ 
tion of the entries for tbe Aintnee 
spectacular. Weights will be 
announced on Tuesday. 

Corals couple Bonanza Boy 
and last year’s Whitbread Gold 
Cup winner. Brown Windsor. 


traduction of a rule excluding 
horses with n handicap mark 
below 105. Two of the entries. 
Pride Hill and Stirabout, are 
both rated below that mark and 
are therefore not qualified. 
CNUND NATIONAL ENTRIES: Against 
TIm Grain. ArdMM. Attitude Adust*. 
Bajen SunsMiM, Bankers Benefit, 
Barira* Ba» Atafcm, Blgam, Bishops 
Vam. Hus Dart. Bob Tadsk Bonanza 
Boy. Border Rambler, Brasriona. Brown 


Durham tamed by 14-man Cardiff 

By a Special Correspondent scored a pushover try, which because of their fast mobift 


on the lfr-1 mark at the bead of CotecL*’craM°WMWL < Dtara? r 'H^ 


Cardiff University 
Durham University... 


SCORERS: Staiyfwie Triaa: O’Dobany 
(3). Bracfcan PL ko [2). WWtfiskL Falzon, 
Waraken. Convaralons: Bracken (7). 
Wamefcen. 

STONYHURST COLLEGE: LO'Ooherty.P 
Ko. A Fateon, N Kay. D FaMcs; V 
GradBa. K Brack an; P BaiaaS, D 
Venthwn. C Darwent. E Whitfield. J 
Wamatan, l Anderson. PHayburaLEBefl. 
MERCHANT TAYLOR'S, CROSBY; G 
Fraser (rap: D Hotensj: A Jackson. R 
Gawttfi. S Garland. P Dunne: j Camptei. 
S Ycxmgtr; N Hated, p Coats. A 
WMkmson, a Heafy. S Rule (rep: H 
Kjmaston). A Turner. S Whrteside. B 
YarwoOd. 

Raferaa: G Seddon (Manchester and 
District). 


Cardiff University, despite hav¬ 
ing to play for more than an 
hour with 14 men. over¬ 
whelmed Durham University in 
virtually all departments of the 
game in this UAU quarter-final. 

After 17 minutes. Thresher, 
the Cardiff lock and younger 
brother of the Harlequins duo. 
was sent off for what the referee 
said was deliberate stamping. 

Thresher is the first player to 
be sent off in Wales after Kevin 
Moseley's dismissal for Wales 
against France a fortnight ago. 
and he can expen a heavy 
punishment under the new 
WRU guidelines on foul play. 

Cardiff six points up. were 
undaunted. With a strong wind 
behind their backs, they exerted 
a seven-man show on the Dur¬ 
ham line and the No. 8, Dyer. 


scored a pushover try, which 
was converted by Davies, the 
full back, fora 12-0 lead. 

On the hair-hour. Price, the 
Cardiff stand-off, hoisted a 
towering kick which Woolf, the 
Durham foil back collected 
inside his 22. but quickly lost 
possession as Hope, the centre, 
arrived and then the Cardiff 
forwards to set it up for Price to 
score. A conversion by Davies 
from the touchline made it 18-0. 

With the home side inside the 
Durham 22 for almost the whole 
of the first half, Price scored his 
second try from a scrum five 
with a neat blind side break, and 
they finished an impressive first 
half 22-0 ahead. 

A minute after the resump¬ 
tion that lead increased when 
Anderson, the right wing, scored 
after a stirring drive by the 
forwards, carried on by the 
ihreequarters. 

As Durham had lost players 
with a procession of injuries, 
Cardiff continued to dominate 


because of their fast mobile 
forwards and the effective com¬ 
bination of their astute half 
backs. Evans and Price. 

Further tries were added by 
Duly, pan of an outstanding 
bock row, and foil back Davies, 
whose touchdown gave him a 
personal tally of 16 points. Even 
with the wind behind them 1 
much as Durham tried they 
never looked like breaching the 
Cardiff defence. 

Cardiff play the winners of 
next week’s Exeter v Lough¬ 
borough match in the UAU 
semi-finals. 


SCORERS: Cercflff UnhraraRy: Trias: 
Pnca (2). Direr. Anderson. Duly. L D*ws. 
C otwa rai B wa: L Daws (SJ.Panaify goals: 
L Davies (2). 

CARDIFF UNIVERSITY: L OavtoS. B 
Anderson. P Hope, J Connolly, a Davws. 
K Price. W Evans. J MavtMranng, J Locke. 
ACartmeS. D Duly, J Brown. PtTvcsftor, S 
BuTt, P Dyer 

DURHAM UWVER9TTT: M Wood. M 
Waoe. O O'Leary. N Coining. H EAson, P 
Le Camp, A Webster, a Writ**, n 
Breurtey. j PnesOey. P Kemble. D BtcMe, 1 
J Dawn, C Kerry. N Martin. I 

Reterae: M Crouch (WRU). ! 


tbeir betting. Tbe firm bave left 
f Desert Orchid, an unlikely nin- 
i ner, out of tbeir list although 
Ladbrokes offer 5-1 with a ran. 

Bonanza Boy. only eighth to 
Little Polveir in last year’s 
National, beads a nine-strong 
contingent from Martin Pipe’s 
yard which also includes the 
1988 Hennessy Gold Cup win¬ 
ner, Strands Of Gold. 

Last year's National form is 
well represented. Of the first 
nine home in April, only Little 
Polveir (now retired! is not 
among the entries. 

West Tip, the most consistent 
National horse since Red Rum, 
is on course lo contest the race 
for the sixth consecutive season. 
Since felling when in contention 
in 1985, Michael Oliver's 13- 
year-old has finished first, 
fourth (twice) and second 12 
months ago. 

Other interesting possibilities 
among a quality entry include 
Golden Freeze. Playschool. The 


www Cortckreteo. Ooot sun. Count 
Hunter. Dorcandw. DraenOrchW. Doctor 
Busby. Door Latch. Durham EdKfon, 
«***. Gainsay. Gab's Imago. 
GaHc Pr|r» Gw-A, Gambrtegs 
Ghotar; GoMan Frame. Goklan Wnotrat, 
Goon Warns. Greenbonk Park. Hwtoy. 
Hwigary Hut. HuWwortft. joint So5- 
.KMW. lanaw*. LAno 
Rouge, Uutonhobrownifls, Manta. 
MaraWantlaf. Mick s Star. MkMglrt Matf- 
naes, Mighty Mark, Mtetor Chrttfan. Moa 
Graana. Monanora. Mr Frisk, NauttcN 
Joka. Norm Lane. Otan Lad. Omarta. 


Oramjn Tran. Over Tfw Road. Panto 
vaifey. Playschool. Polar Nomad, 

PNyterws. Pukka Major, Qu oar away 
Rad CokimOca, Ramedy The 


MatadjLRItuo. Rok-A JoW. Sacred Path, 
Sancscmte Boy. Sergeant Sputa. &fcnan 
* ns ’W-. SUvar Ace. Sk Jest Sotarns. 
Stars DafigM. Staaraby. Strands oi Goto. 
Taroooey, Tarqogan'B Best Team ChnX- 

SS? 1 "H* 

Dyer. The Tfttokar, ThMUng Cap. Throe 
Cowitles. Toratee, Trover Over, Tran 
Oaks. Uncle Merlin. UracoL West Tto. Why 
So Hsatv. Young Driver. Zuko, Pnoe M* 
Ino> qu aldteq). Stirabout (not quaWed). 
BETTING: Conte 16-1 Bonanza Boy. 
Brow Windsor. 20-1 Ghctar, Conclusive. 
25-] bar. Ladbrokes: 12-1 Bonanza Boy. 
16 - 1 Brown Windsor, 20-1 Durham E4- 
bon. TheTtvnksr. Polytamus. 2S-1 bar. 

• WassI Port, a leading ante- 


Thinkcr. Bishops Yam. Ten Of post fancy for the William Hill 
Spades and Desert Orchid's Lincoln at Doncaster on March 


stable companion. Ghofar. 

The total entry of 102 is six up 
on last season despite the in- 


-•L was one of five non- 
acceptors for the race at yes¬ 
terday's forfeit stage. 


SNOW REPORTS 


GYMNASTICS 


TENNIS 


TABLE TENNIS 


Cabngonn: Snow level. 2,000ft: vertical 
runs, 2.000ft Runs upper, all complete. 


wide cover middle, most om n ptete. new 
snow; lower, most complete: ample 
nursery areas: access roads chan chair. 
Bits and tows dosed. Qi a n s ti ee: snow 
level, 8001c vertical runs. 1.000ft. Runs: 
upper and lower, most complete, but 
nwrow; ample nursery areas: access 
roads dean duaufts end tows dosed. 
Leettt Snow level. 1.000ft: vertical runs. 
650ft. Rims: mam. most oomptete: {Man¬ 
ner. aa co m plete: access roods dean 
tows, seven opea Orecne and ski school 
open. Aonech Mon Snow level, 2.000K: 
vertical runs. 1,700ft Runs: upper and 
tower complete, but toy; access roads 
dear, gondola ana chawft dosed. Glen¬ 
coe: snow level. 800ft: vertical runs. 
1,600ft. Runs: upper and lower. aM 
comptete. rww mow - drifting: access 
roaca dear: dt aim ft s and lows dosed. 
Forecast A mixture of sunshine and snow 
sttowers scattered over the eastern 
resorts of Otem hea, Caknaorm and 
Lecht Glencoe and Aonadi Morws have 
frequen t snow, heavy m vie mo m m a , 
becoming homer by md-al Mm o o n. Cloud 
wd be seanered at 2.000ft m the west and 
4.000ft «i the east rkepptflg to 1,50Qti and 
3.000ft respectively during showers. 
Winds wffl be a strong southwesterly, 
goto-force over exposed doges and 
stfuntta Oudoofc: Some oventignt snow 
to expected on dooes todgM. when codd 
we* gwe several inches of (rasn 
accwnUOtuns. Tomorrow and Saturday 
wfll be sunny, wen snow showers, most 
treguem and heavy in the west Gale ftxoe 
westerly wMs w* be prevalent Freezing 
levels at 2JXXW or below. 

• Information suopMd by the Scottish 
Meteorological ontoe. 

AUSTRIA L U 

Bad KtoMdrchhte m -- 40 

Innsbruck/lgia-- 0 5 


Depth Runs Weather Last 

(cm) Conditions to + tamp snow 
L U Piste Off/P resort ppm) °C fan 

ANDORRA 

SokJeu 40 no good varied fair fine 1 29/1 

Very good skiing on most slopes; some exposed areas worn 


Games medal Durie’s game plan proves a winner 


AUSTRIA 

Kitzbuhel 10 35 worn heavy worn fohn 7 25/1 


winners in 
British team 


Mosipistes worn but sJtiaWo, good snow at Pass Thum 
Obergurgt 35 90 fair powder fair fair 1 


By Peter Aykroyd 


Ptenty of good skiing: some worn and rocky areas 
St Anton 30 70 fair varied art fine 3 26/1 


Upper weH used pistes worn; lower pistes good, 
artificial snow 


FRANCE 

isoia 


50 80 good good good ctoud -1 


AB slopes in excellent conditian, no queues 
Les Arcs 40 65 good varied fair doud 5 

Good skiing higher runs, a few rocks lower slopes 


Tignes 20 120 (Nr varied fair fair 2 

Most runs open, good on glacier. r*gh winds 
Vald’lsere 36 70 good soft good fine 4 


Great skiing most areas, avalanche risk high 
Val Thorens 65 130 fair fair good cloud -2 

AH upper rum closed due to high winds 


ITALY 

Cenrinfa 25 60 good powder good fine 3 

AB pistes in exceBent condition 


SWITZERLAND 

Crane Montana 5 70 good powder dosed sun 2 

Good skiing around BeBa Ltd and on Plains Morte 
Gstaad 5 60 lair heavy closed lair 7 


Good conditions upper slopes, slushy on lower slopes 
Ktosters 7 35 fair varied icy fine 4 


Lech- 

Mayrhaten ——- 

Obvrgurgl ..- ■■ 

3—tench/HU te r ga mu t — 

St Anton —--- 

Schtadrrtng- 

SwWd- 

Swan - 

SU - 

ZalamSee- 


Best skiing on Gotschna and Parserm 
St Moritz 30 70 good powder good doud 0 

Excellent skgng on ax open nms, windy et altitude 
VBrtter 35 60 good varied fair fine -3 


ExceSent skiing on aB pistes 

Wungrai 2 !0 fair varied dosed doud 5 28/1 

Reasonable skiing on Lauberhom and Lager runs 


NadonN Tourist 


tn the above reports, suppled by representatives of the Ski Ck& of Great 

Britain. L refers to lower slopes and U to upper, end anwartficaL 


James May and Neil Thomas, 
two English gymnasts who 
struck gold in the Common¬ 
wealth Games, have been re¬ 
warded with selection for the 
British team for the Doily 
Mirror Champions All inter¬ 
national tournament at 
Birmingham International 
Arena on March 31. 

May. from Bristol, won the 
vault final, while Thomas, who 
is from Liverpool, was sucessftil 
in the floor exercise. Both had 
previously won silver medals in 
the team competition. 

May is bringing five medals 
j back with him from New Zea¬ 
land. the other three being a 
■ bronze in the overall individual, 
a silver for the rings and a 
bronze won on tbe pommel 
horse. 

The British women picked for 
Champions All, in which repre¬ 
sentatives from 13 nations will 
be taking pan. are Lisa Grayson, 
the national champion from 
Redcar, and Sarah Mercer, of 
Leatherfaead. 

Mercer. No. 1 in Britain, was 
ineligible for the Common¬ 
wealth Games as she was bora 
in South Africa and brought up 
in New Zealand. 

All four arc likely to be in the 
British team for the European 
championships to be held in 
May. 


There were encouraging wins in 
Auckland yesterday for both Jo 
Dune and Clare Wood to take 
them into the second round of 
l the Nutri-Metics International 
/Barry Wood writes). Dune 
could be especially delighted 
with the manner in which she 
overcame the American. Donna 
Faber, the fourth seed, who was 
a quarter-finalist at the Austra¬ 
lian Open. 

Dune won 6-1.6-3. a mislead¬ 
ing score because many of the 
early games went to deuce. In 
the second set, too, there were 
problems for the British girl 
when Faber took a 2-0 lead. But 
instead of panicking. Durie kept 
to her game plan, which was to 


attack and not allow her oppo¬ 
nent to gain the initiative, and it 
paid rich dividends as she 
claimed oil but three of the last 
19 points. 

Overall, it was an aggressive 
and assured performance, dem¬ 
onstrating admirable self-con¬ 
trol, although there were still 
rather too many unforced errors 
for it to be entirely satisfactory. 

Faber, wbo usually conceals a 
timid personality behind a ruth¬ 
less and efficient baseline game, 
appeared to be extremely ner¬ 
vous and often seemed to put 
little effort into Her shots. 

Wood, a qualifier, was a 7-6. 
6-2 winner over the Swedish 
player, Maria Ekstrand, who 


had disposed of Sarah 
Loosemorc along the way. 

Ekstrand's lack of precision in 
the second set cost her dearly. *'I 
knew if f ran down enough balls 
I'd eventually get an error out of 
tier. She hit big winners but was 
inconsistent and tried to go for 
too much in tbe second set.** 
Wood said. 

RESULTS: FWt nwmfc E Krapl (Sracn M 
S Stafford <USl, 6-3.6-4.8 Conlwrel <NZ) 
Dt J Tftompson (Aus). 6-3,6-0. J Richard¬ 
son (NZ) bt J HMharmgion (Can). 6-3.6-«. 
J Owto IGB) M 0 fa&w (US). 6-1. 6-3; A 
Laond (UStW E Plat! (WG). 2-6.6-3,8-2. R 
WWo (US) bt a Oavnes (Set). 4-0. rat; B 
BcwrestUSj m T Schauor-Lanan (Dan). 6- 
2- £ i- S.° {Aua / w M Oraka fCan). fl- 
3. 3-8. 6-1. C Wood (GB| bt M Ekstrand 
<Swei. 7-6. 6-2. M -laggard (Ausi W P 
frioran (Fin). 6-2.7-S: K dodrtdge (AuS) tat 
N Medvedeva (USSR). 6-2.6-7TM. 


Officials plan 
to build on 


recent success 


YACHTING 


Van den Heede challenges leader 


For the first time in eight weeks, 
the lead held by Tiiouan 
Lamazou in ihc Globe Chall¬ 
enge non-stop single-handed 
round the world race, is being 
seriously challenged (Malcolm 
McKeag writes). 

Jean-Luc von den Heede in 
36.15 Md moved into second 
place at ihe weekend and has 
been closing on Lamazou. 
which was more than 400 miles 
ahead at one stage, at a rate of 
more than 50 miles a day as they 
approach the Macquarie Is¬ 
lands, 250 miles south New 
Zealand. Yesterday van den 
Heede had narrowed the gap to 


240 miles - about 24 hours. 

Van den Heede. aged 44. a 
professor of mathematic* and a 
disciple of ihc Bernard Moi- 
icssicr school of simple purity in 
ocean voyaging, is one of the 
least hcavilv sponsored en¬ 
trants. His two-musted Philippe 
Harlc design lacks ihc extensive 
sail inventory and sophisticated 
auto-piiot of boats like 
Lamazou’s Ecurcuit 

d'Aqimainnc or Loick Peyron's 
Lada Poch. 

Van den Heede spends be¬ 
tween seven and ciphi hours a 
day at the helm as Met race* at 
speeds up to 20 knots through 


the Antarctic ocean in freezing 
temperatures. 


• Will Sutherland and his High 
Profile Vachiing organization 
have paid £50.000 io the Ameri¬ 
can holders of the registered 
trade names Ultimate 30 and 
Ultimate Yacht Race for the 
rights to use the names in 
Dntam. Yesterday Sutherland 
promised that all boats of 
Ultimate 30 concept would be 
cligihle for ail his races this »ear. 
He confirmed the first ’ two 
venues fur his circuit os Brigh¬ 
ten (May 25 io 27) and Hull 
Uunc 15 to 17). 


By Richard Eaton 

The boom of the past three years 
received further impetus yes¬ 
terday with the announcement 
that £100.000 is to be poured 
into an imaginative new dev¬ 
elopment fund designed to 
make the sport even bigger. 

Every league which submits 
plans designed to increase its 
number of members will have 
its affiliation fees to the English 
Table Tennis Association 
(ETTA) returned. 

Until recently it would have 
been co nsidere d astonishing 
that the ETTA should even 
possess such a sum. let alone feel 
able lo spend it in this ambitious 
way. The attempt to broaden the 
game's base follows on from the 
great success of a marketing 
revolution. 

This has helped produce suc¬ 
cess for the national team, a 
subiamia] improvement in the 
international calendar, about 20 
hours of television in the last 
l*° y ears, a nd a transformation 
of the ETTA's accounts. 

A successful entry into the 
Olympics has lent further sup¬ 
port to the belief that there is 
room for substantial further 
development. "The new fund 
will strengthen our grass roots, 
where all the new enthusiasts we 
are winning will want to start," 
John Prean, the ETTA chair¬ 
man, said. 


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v ariie Nose can continue to 
justify Henderson’s investment 


By Mftndacfat 
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Henderson looks 

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f^ffoduct; the farm that saw 
™y*»nm fOT Knight OB on 
trad: in December. 
However, as he has dis¬ 
appointed both in appearance 
and in the race 
«sof at Ascot since, Charlie 
Nose looks the safer bet. 

Bout looks to have a 
Bwacnance of winning the 


toured his parish on horseback 
—invariably on an ex-racer on 
whom he lavished the greatest 
cam — prior to a visit to his 
local pub, The Ibex, from 
where the cry “vwe le 
Piccohge" (french slang for 
long live drinking) was to he 
heard occasionally. 

As he is by The Parson, Le 


l<rr7^rr7^t.n..;.n-ni^r l K-i.jip; 


Rothersthorpe Handicap 
Chase. 

Finally, I like the look of 
Richard Quinn’s rfiawy of 
riding a double on the pre¬ 
vious all-weather track win¬ 
ners Jascha (2.40) and Sir 
Safas (4.10) at Lingfield. 

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Selections 

By Mandarin 


1.55 Star Player. 
2.25 CharUeNofia 

2.55 Terra Di Siena. 


3.25 Rock Of Ages. 

3.55 First Bout. 

445 ALMANZOBA (nap). 


'_ By Michael Seely 

Z55 TERRA DI SIENA (nap). 3^5 Rock Of Ages. 3.55 First Bout. 
The Times Private Handicapper’s top rating: 2.55 TERRA DI SENA. 


Guide to our in-line racecard 

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2*^2?*^ (ftrtanc* winner. BF-brat. 

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B-Draw* down. S-sflcped m R-mAisad ‘ 


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5 0 CXWICY10 (Lady Anns Bmhicfc)JQIo«Mr 5-1 vft_ 

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.7 04 OOil) HAM) M (R Lae) K Batoy 6-11-3 __ 

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2£5 ROTHERSTHORPE HANDICAP CHASE (22£1&2m 50yd) (15 runners) 

1 21/Q02S DUHALLOW BOV 3 (FAS) (CD) (J Upean) J Upson 10-12-0-QMn(7) 00' 

2 22/B4P5- RJiaOFTItUCf 3K(D4)(PLM)SC)ifWWl10-114_AIMMM01 00 

3 P23PS4 ACOAIM 21 0XF*Q)fJ H*ndtraon)N Henderson KM 14-m—iidy a 

4 P-43412 BMHCXl 18 0XM.S) (0 Huraptwwya) A Moor* 8-11-4_Q Hew* M 

« TWMMiM>mffjii M|P ant.».iij BWia— W 

6 3-12323 GLBSE 9PQMEY13 (B£tXF,8)(RMfcttedma8)J Wharton B-11-0-SJONeE BO 

7 (JFFPB 80UCT LAD 15 0XFA3)(D Solan) BStavsna7-10.il_N M aya ns (7) a 

8 02FP-32 TREMAYNE 31 (BF)(MsaV Cotton) TForatar 7-104_ H Davies S2 

0 1344BF BEH HEAP 0 (B) (Anna Duchaaa el Wavtndnatar) T Fcrsiar 6-10-fl_CUMp — 

10 PVPU/W QAMARO24(P)(Ma|or P Nms|Q BafcSngB-IO-7_ ROumI — 

11 4-ZV31 TB«A DI SIENA • (FAS) (OWsOtr Labels LB0 P Hotobs 8-10-5 (8«v)-MtfWM 

12 BP4G0P BUIE DANUBE 3 (VAF.S) (W Dora) p QmooBo 6-10-4_ SHOW a 

13 F110fS4 BRMTYRULES20(GLS)(MMtMMoodaLtd)SMotor0-104_8 Cawley a 

14 UM63P [AMA PRINCESS 64 (BF) (Mrs EMielan}TCney 7-10-0__ MLyneto 04 

15 3G4/PU-0 RLFORD10 (Mrs C BrowOay) P Ransom 10-10-0_01*00 — 

f rrpTimf-sp *nm*f*rtnrm*m mftminn 

BETTMQ: 0-4 Tarra Oi Sian*. 9-2 Trrayrw, 5-1 D andfc ta. 114 DuMtow Boy. 0-1 Qlab* Spimay. 
6-1 MMy Fhiaa, 10-1 Tramayn*, 12-1 others. 

1001s SWEET Irani 7-lM R Dunwoody (3-1 fav) T Caaey 0 ran 

FORM FOCUS 

OanaraBy Right on wtncamon (2m, good) re- provamant 

appaaranc*. may D* Caw for that nm. TBKADISSM ran on wad to boat Gay Qumer by 


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ha won ttJ 2nd to Lord Admiral at WMtor (2m 40yd. good a ® paredty for mat India not cartahiospdreeMa 
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QLBE SP 00 C Y ta a oonaMtant sort ad returned WffWtTY RULES l a otan ad 3 out when 2a 3rd to 
another aadttat* effort when a 141 3rd to Mr QUck on raappearenoa at Mari* Raaan (2m. 
auhaaquent eoorar Muaum tn Parvo over oouna good to soft), 
ad dtattnca (good to la) TREUAYNE apt on at SatocBece TMSMMVNE 

325 MILL HOUSE CLAIMING HURDLE (£ 1 , 562 :2m 5f 2Byti) (7 runners) 

1 162604 POaMKWImEASUnC21 (BFASl(MHutOartS J BalMr5-11-13_WUoPartadP) 

2 2ia HA IA QBtl M (C^) (kfr« C Dartsy) R Sknpeon 4-11-12_WMonta 74 

3 4/4 ROCK OF AOE121 (BF){B Ward) M Pipe S-1S6-RBuaJamuia W 

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8 040BCS OVERT 17(pCNpman)MtaaSWltan6-10-1S-SSamEcdaa 01 

7 ISO CmDRBTS JOIE 6 (PLagMS Dow 4-10-11-R Qaaat 00 

BETTlttQ; 5-4 Rock Of Age*. 9-2 Baiy Frenchman, 5-1 DotnWon Traaaure, 6-1 NaUOH.10-1 toohar. 
14-1 Chart. 18-1 CMttas JoSST 

1888: VAOOQ 4-10-12 R Macnelce (1-2 lav) M Pip* 7 ran 

FORM FOrilQ com m on I ChNMtonWpRA.aolSBtBMmhind 

rwnm "UOUO HIEA0UM2a4Siof I formaffllyyim* *— oabUharrotmnwalontm. 
12 to Doe's Ctoat at Newton Abbot (an 150yd. ( Last ttas out. 14178) of IS to My VWanttna Cal fell 
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12 to Doe's Ctoat at Newta Abbot (an 150yd. Last ttas out. 1417*1 of IS to My VWantfeia Cal fell 
heavy). Previously 3217m of18 to made Comedy at Mariret R*ea aator (2m. good to soft). 

Davor (2m If. soft). OVERT 12jy 5m of 8 to Slant Prince** to a a6- 

NALAdNU74l6mof 18toSayymstlCarapton(2in waatoar aalar to S o uth way Chi 4t. standartS. 
4f.good).Evfsr45l3rdof ft to Good Spirit« Pmy toualy M 2nd..of 12 _to_ Towana to 
FMona (2m 100yd. good to ftml 

NOCK OF AGES 1714th of 21 to SocM Cftnher to nnS rSan 

Wlncanton (an M. good) a Ha first outing tor nearly 1H *" ** 10 to 10,10 

2 years. Hi# farm of tMt race hesworiiad out waiL here pm, good to am) 

BALLY HENCHMAN 3 2nd of 19 to MBnatta to a S a l s ellnnr, BOCK OP AflES (nap) 

SL55 YAffflLEY QOBION HANDICAP CHASE (£2,902:2m 5f 110yd) (8 runners) 

1 3RJ304 HRBT BOUT 12 (0J)(W8hoh*r) N Handwan 0-120-R Dunwoody M 

2 11641^) BUJEPART0(04KH PMflakgTFaster 10-11-12 -- HPavtoa — 

3 1/11318- FARMLEA BOY 354 (DJ=AB) LaV*) O BaMhg 10-11-10 —— . . ..R Qaaat 88 

4 3WF1F B.QAUA014 (8,03) p South) OSherwood 610-10 ..— JOaboma 81 

5 RIFP-03 TABAHWARA13 (Q^(Southern Csswi Orovp) J GMtord 0-104 .. ■ RRowa 88 

6 3641-PU SHEER STEEL 28 (3) (Stsal Plata A Sections Ud) J BrAowts 10-104-— •■» 

7 N01R-U5 WTfRMSIUNT 18(8)(DWhaaflay) KMorga0-10Q . lltoaar M 

8 8280-12 AHWLLO17*p.8FA)PLaai)JBoa»cfc0-1M-BHeNato 81 

lag hantocaw Ah Halo 0-7. 

BETTMCE0-4 Rret Bout. 3-1 B QaN*o.M F«mtoaBoy.5-1 Tarahumara, 0-1 Ah Halo. 10-1 Bhie Dart 
16-1 Shear Steal, 33-1 toysha SaM. 

ISM: RAREY SARK 12-10-10 D Tegg (B-4) J King S ra 

FORM FOCUS JTT 

Knight at Kempton (2m 4f, good) a his first start for 
21 monma. BUIE DART taladaflSm of 11 to Tidal 
Strum to Chepstow (2m 4f. heavy) a Bret start tor 
22 months. 

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2 »- AUIA1<20RA377(MreEHBchtns)MreJPtosa 0-114 —-MfWasn — 

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6 000 BROOK 1 NRBJ) IS (ftooka (Btotol Wish) LIJ) J JwBtoS 5-114-M Ah— P) — 

7 30 OREYS0Y Mated) OBrenna 0-1 VO-— Mtorsna 79 

8 0 LE PICCOLAQ E 23 (Wi M CartO M Handsreon 0-1V3—-■ 

9 MARK IWB0(Mre I Kerman) JQHtard 0-114----■JJ'fMdW — 

10 5- MOUKTTORUS342(»*sf»Ftoon)S C1w ii i sn8-114 - .. . .. —— A Mtowlaad g — 

11 00 SALLY'S OEM 1*{M SmBh) JtMM 5-114-—-W R* ch* (7) 78 

12 400 SOBPBWtoO 27 fCTh—NOJBtegBr 5-114 - - B P ?—" 19 

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14 0 TOE MOSSES 21 (Lotd Lavarttom*) T Fon— 5-114---C U-My* — 

15 08 8fOOOtAHDS OE H IMlC 78(MsaMPre*C*)PPrttehsrt5-114 - ..... — . 8 J<rW — 

10 *0- CVMTWA MAY463(8 Smfag PBurimm* 0-1^12--— Q tocCoua — 

17 5 DUBLBI BAOA04(J Bwrmw)Mrel McW* 6-10-12--L Hanrey — 

10 0B8ETT101F<R Dalton) JScarglM-10-7- .. ■ - Mp *w— 

BETPNO: S-1 Aknanzora, 74 Bordeaux Baau, 4-1 Angara Ktea, 0« 8»pi—• DeMar, 6-1 u Ptacotag*. 
8-1 Andy Boy. 10-1 MtokKytoo. 12-1 tohars. 

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2^0 CRUSADER CUUMNQ STAKES (£2^64: 71) (7 runners) 

1 (7) 80- CHATTERS 101 (DVIBta) M Madgwicfc44-13-— **»— *!f 

2 (1) 429D4S ABSOLUTB-YHUMM 0 IQ5(BJN(RFtanr)DWlaon44-7-TMMs— 88 

0 (Q 300004 BLUE DOC 7« (M Moon) JJafetos 0*7---JWU— 0* 

4 (9 000441 JASCHA 8 (C) OtoJylYAvIgdorQoldwt^RJotasa Moulton 44-7_.T0Na 88 

5 (B) 000083 CRK BAY OfJWpOsawflJ Sparing 114-4- CMtor 88 

6 (3) 003000-MtANCSROBE«l(MrsFFWOBStavsns4«4-— JQtosff — 

7 W 00000- MM8KKPATRICK144 yJsssagOJaray 44-13- - H Ad— — 

BCTTMO: 2-1 Jasehs. 0-1 CtaOMte. 84 AbaoMNy Humming. 0-1 Cm Bay. W Btea Disc, 10-1 othem. 

3.10 CHCFTAW APPRENTICE HANDICAP (&J322: 1m 2t) (8 rromera) 

1 (5) 422421 BEECHWOODCOTTASE0|BAFA9AB«sy7-105(5**)^- M 

2 (4) 1E331S- VITEVITE48(0X2)80*8 P c—)J&to4Ra40-13. . 0Cto—W 00 

3 «26410 FU 88 JER 0 (<XFfl) (Mrs Ct*saphrey)T Thomson Jonas 802— LMahoesyW N 

4 80438-1 Bn-OFAIJtM1f(CO/)PL*«OAlbulfMMt440 - ARgchrR M 

5 re 12*044 TH*REDL 8 * 0 (V,D^,a){JShipley)JJertdrw0-0-12-PMenteresM 

0 (9 026453 OMBOT 8 (RF|5) (B Lsvto Rsn wto) P Howing 500-M ft iBUws 88 

7 P) 080808 BALLY nEOKT 8 ( 8 ) (J Shew) J Shew 44-10- J ** m U 

8 (7) 0^80000 COURT C I IAI1—11 14(to(TMwshto)C&*y 47-^0-BtMssd — 

BETTB»04BN» 0-f ThtoHsd Ut*. 02 DBMtBWmJ C W 0 E 7-1 BE Of A LtSS. 0-1 Vito WE 

10-1 FusBsr, 10-1 others. 

140 CENTURION HANDICAP (E2/6& 1m) (12 Timers) 

1 (10) 0(0544 SECRETUABON7fJPBNrtIWPlIEf4*100- T^utoCR 

2 (7) 0(00408- P RE8E 80 24J(Mr»C DardorcgJ vmta*-P4-- U Wjam 

3 (3> 503158-VMIANrRED1S(F)^SwtoM)0 Mnw.&B 8 h 400-— HWimUto 

4 (M OI88200 HMH OUBCTA12 (V) (MB* S Warner) M Qrehani 4-8-lS-— Pa a McK a ew* 

6 ( 1 ) 010400 MTDUMONDRBIB1tnn(llnMMGimsm)MUtoiar00'12--BFaw 

0 (4) 818008- PRETTY PRECOCIOUS 14J ( 8 ) (Q TYaglaa) J Spearing 4-0-10- CRto tor 

7 (9 433300 MERSEYSBEMAK 1)4 (V^)(«*iSScsrgE)J Scwg*4-88- Kmmeff) 

8 (Q 500005- BCWM 0 BtMrWWBhtotoi)WW V l im 8 B<a B - JBMms 

9 (5) MOOO0O HORTOBBIBABl2i(0)(AAnaataatoi4C A5a4-08-R ltoree • 

10 (IP 008000- SNOW M 0 MDER 47 (R lento P HoaEng 4*S- NAdu a 

11 ( 12 ) 390040 ROYAL HUNT 14(PBucft)M Madgatek 880- jyj 

« » 0009 «*PRMEATTACKI54(ED*0EB*lfr?.7-« 8 tood«-- 

RETTOKt 0-1 MMUwMi IMn.4-1 P faC y m co d ou i . 0-1 Nortun RMn,7-1 Swat Uaaon. H Boyol 
fhmL 10-1 VBn Rad, regh CfeAU. 10-1 oBan. 

4.10 CHALLSMB? HANDICAP ^2.788:1m 40 (9 iwmere) 

1 (5) 5505/3 DOLLAR 8EIKEH14 (FreffA* C HH atj A Bs isy MtoaR TSU (7) m 

2 (6) 04/3320- PEISWFORUM33JretWA*)(RSurr1dgNJSiac*fa 00-10- “ 

3 A SR 8 -TI «RJR»14(V«fl(NWtW1)CNreenl8a, -iJ 0 *? 5 

4 (IQ 0551-51 RAPP0RTBIR14TOP*kodCC El Ba Yf H13» ■ - 2 

6 ( 9 ) 00000 - CATHOBaOJ<BrereareJOMWrr--nauj toirama 87 

8 PI 840436 ACONTTUM2(FAS)fTKteg)JJarttoM^I——-—-- TT “ . “ 

7 W 004RM AUOBELUlilCatnpfcaMBittolDPWEtMM-*-2 

8 (3) VOOMO CWnZ9«(»BlPIMsDK*)CHoteW5W- 7 — - M AO—a M 

9 (7) 0200-54 CROINYFUCglWPRWF I W Mw^ MHqmuW-BBM0O0 #55 

Lug MoMup: CRMhy FMot 7 -Bl 

BETTBKkW Sir Rufus. 7-ZRapporte»r. 5-1 Crosby Pteea, 8-1 Ooisr Saator, 7-1 ARXtoL 10-1 Dante. 
12-1 Fanny Fonsn. 14-1 othara. 


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42 


SPORT 


THE TIMES THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1 1990 


The Times reports from the XIV Commonwealth Games in Auckland 


World must shed burden of weightlifting 


Judo team 


Weightlifting may finally have 
exhausted the patieaoe of the 
International Olympic Omh 
m it tee. Joan Antonio 
Samaranch* the president of 
the IOC, said yesterday Chat at 
its next meeting hi Belgrade in 
April the executive board 
would study carefoQy the lat¬ 
est scandals of pasftfve drag 
testing at the Commonwealth 
Games in Auckland. 



Weightlifting's repeated 


Hint, hi my opinion, it should 
be suspended front all nraltipte 
events, such as die Olympic, 
Coeux»Bwealdk and Adas 
fgr a wiuimnw of 
three years, with the demand 
that it puts Its boose is Oder 


it b readmitted. Tim 
disgrace it continually b ring s 
agm other sports as wefl as 
itself is totally maorpCrMc. 

Sonny de Sales, die new 
chairman of the Caunon- 
wealth Games Federation, 
said last night: “I need to tfve 
the sitaatkm considerable 
thonght. The federation’s 
executive board must investi¬ 
gate aU the details. We should 
perhaps remember that there 
has bees no suggestion, for 


instance, that athletics should 
be banned for to similar 
misdemeanours.” 

The canton of de Sa ks , 
having Just assamed office, is 
oadennandable; yet tolerance 
of the abase by weigbtiiftfcg 
has no dry. The sport b 
comqn throaghont and Ate 
latest evidence of two pos¬ 
itively tested Welshmen and 
an Indian in Anckhmd b (he 
last straw. 

Weightlifting was riddled 
with positive tests hi the 
Olympic Games in Seoul, even 
tf Ben Johnson was the most 
notable o ff en de r of those 
Games. The Bulgarian 
■ ri g hfi Hftwg fym mg sent 
home, Hungary thr eate ned to 


suspend its team bn bare 
competitions and Canada’s 
ranks were scarred by random 
tests before departure for 
SeonL I doubt if there is a 
single innocent nation in the 
sport. 

U b ine fc v ant that Dr 
Tanas Ajan, the Hungari an 
general secretary of the Inter¬ 
national Weightlifting Federa¬ 
tion, says Oat (he offenders 
are from the lower ranks. So 
what? Responsibility reties at 
die top, and until weightlifting 
can guarantee that its ranks 
are clean, it should be removed 
from collective international 
events. 

If it vrishes to have c o r rup t 
private world championships, 


that is its own affair, bat there 
b no reason why weJghtttfHng 
sboaid constantly tarnish the 
rest of sport. The guilty 
w rig htMfters in the Common¬ 
wealth Games have been de¬ 
tected only bf a random 
testing system, used for econ¬ 
omy measures. What might 
the result have been had every 
medallist been tested? 

Sam Cofla, the president of 
the Commonwealth 

WeightUfttog Federation, said 
yesterday that he was dis¬ 
appointed that all medallists 
had not been tested. 

It ia significant that 
Subrataknmar Pud, the In¬ 
dian tested positive h the 
Hghtweight division, bad not 


been tested previously because 
India has no adequate testing 
facilities. Xu Auckland the 
samples for testing have had to 
be sent to Sydney at a cost of 
£120 a time. 

It b no excuse fin- senior 
officials the sport to suggest 
that the responsibility for 
abuse lies with coaching, or 
that die competitors found 

positive are lacking in Intelli¬ 
gence. IT there b not the 
co m petence to ran the sport 
property, then that b its own 


which mi ght be pet forward is 
athletics, that competitors are 
tempted by fhnmrial rewards. 
The element of financial greed 
does not exist in werighdifting, 
■mt even the social advantages 
previously attainable in East¬ 
ern European contones are 
now disappearing with the 
shift away from communist 


captain 
rises to the 


challenge 


_ those weighttifters 

who may be innocent of abase 

are well aware (bat if they win 

n ”^*1 fhg ai moaf automatic 


general practice that coaches 
are former competitor s, and so 
the practice of drag abuse 
revolves in a vicious circle. 


their sport and o uts i d e, b to 
wonder whether they were on 
drugs. Such a sport has no 
the iatenutianl 


Martin all 
on her own 
in record 
marathon 


Lisa Martin, of Australia, ran 
alone aloof: the Auckland water¬ 
front on Wednesday to retain 
the Games marathon title in a 
Games best time of 2hr 25min 
28 sec. 

The 29-year-old Olympic sil¬ 
ver medal winner was in a class 
of her own, taking a lead of 100 
metres over the other 14 
competitors in the first 
kilometre. 

At the Skm mark she was 
more than a minute ahead of 
Tani Ruckle and steadily in¬ 
creased her lead on a cool, 
overcast morning. 

Martin chose to run in Auck¬ 
land instead of challenging 
Rosa Mota. the Olympic cham¬ 
pion in lucrative race in Osaka, 
japan. She was on taiget to 
improve her best time - 2hr 
23min 51 sec set in Osaka two 
yrars ago — for the first half of 
the the race but slowed over the 
later stages, as the strain of 
battling a fresh sea wind on ber 
own look its tolL 
Ruckle held second place to 
take the silver in 2hr 33min 
16sec and Angela Pain, of 
England, was third in 2br 36min 
3.5 sec. 

Mick Hill will cast friendship 
aside on Saturday when he goes 
after the scalp of 20-year-old 
Sieve Backley. who has emerged 
from the junior ranks to rob him 
of his status as the Common¬ 
wealth's finest javelin thrower. 

Hill, aged 23, of Yorkshire, 
gets on like a bouse on fire with 
Backley, winner of the World 
Cup last year, but admits there 
will be no love lost once they 
clash in the Mount Smart 
Stadium. 

“Sieve’s a mate of mine," Hill 
said. “We’ve been training to¬ 
gether in America before we 
came out here, and we've had a 
few good laughs together. But 
we'll be deadly rivals once we 
get out there on Saturday.” 

Less than three years ago. Hill 
smashed the Commonwealth 
record with a throw of 85.24 
metres in Stockholm and was 
seemingly on the verge of break¬ 
ing the world record. 

Bui then it all went wrong. He 
suffered two seasons of injury 
problems just as Backley began 
to emerge excitingly from the 
junior ranks. 

Hill's improving form last 
summer showed him that he 
could regain his form of 1987; 
he was the only Briton to beat 
Backley, last saeson, albeit in a 
low-key end of season meeting 
in Thurrock. 

Backley, who won World 
Cup, European Cup, World 
Student Games and Grand Prix 
titles last year, recognises that 
Hill, along with New Zealander 
Gavin Lovegrove, pose the 
main danger. 

Lovegrove, the 22-year-old 
hometown favourite, looks to be 
the only man likely to spoil it for 
the Englishmen. He has thrown 
83.9Q metres during the current 
New Zealand season and will 
have a partisan crowd backing 
him all the way in Mount Smart 
Stadium. 


May the sun never 
set on the good 
old Empire game 


FVom Simon Barnes. 

It is obvious what is the most 
important sport of the Com¬ 
monwealth Games; bowls. 
This is the true sport of 
Empire. I remember one time 
when I was asking directions 
in Port Moresby. Papua New 
Guinea (if I may be excused a 
particularly unsublie name- 
drop) and was told: just past 
the bowling club. 

The town was said to be 
unwalkable after dark (too 
many "rascals" roamed die 
streets), the bars were full of 
the lying-down drunk, the 
pavements were all bright red 
with beetle nut, but there at 
the bowling dub life was just 
fine. Everyone was wearing 
white clothes with a white 
straw hat or a white flat cap. 
Everyone said "well played". 

Some of the Common¬ 
wealth Games events can look 
a little like a poor man's 
Olympics, but with bonds you 
know where you are. Bowls 
makes the Commonwealth 
Gaines unique, special, the 
inevitable result of a century 
or more of linked histories. 

There are 20 nations taking 
part in the bowls competitions 
here: the home countries, 
obviously, and the old domin¬ 
ions: Canada, Australia and 
New Zealand. But that was 
not all: we also had Botswana, 
the Cook Islands, India, Ma¬ 
lawi, Western Samoa, Swazi¬ 
land, Zambia and Zimbabwe. 

Bonds is a great game for hot 
di mates. You don't run about 
too much and you can keep a 
drink at either end of the 
green. It was one of the great 
social games of Empire: one of 
the great pleasures of Empire 
wives. Polo was for the 
wealthy, cricket was some¬ 
thing quite other, but bowls 
was an Empire version of 
Sport For All for the Brits. 
And the game has since gone 
native. 



cal tension; that is especially 
true of angles. The men's 
singles final was played be¬ 
tween a 45-year-old Brisbane 
taxi driver and'a young Scot 
from Hong Kong with a red 
beer-drinker’s lace. If this was 
not quite representative of the 
width of the Empire, it was, at 
least, not uncolourfuL Be¬ 
sides, the women's singles was 
won by Geua Tau, of Papua 
New Guinea, so I cant grum¬ 
ble about the lack of 
exoticism. 


sledging in the ChappeU-UDee 
tradition of dubious cricket 

Parnells didn’t care for this. 

"So I gave him one. It cost me 
a few dollars’ worth of bar¬ 
rister, but it all worked out.*’ 
The sledger was later banned 
from the game for the same 
offence, so Parrelia feels dou¬ 
bly vindicated. 


Parrelia had predicted that 
his opponent, Mark Mc¬ 
Mahon, might fed the pres¬ 
sure, being a stripling of 20. 
For a long time this looked 
way off the mark but, at 14-14, 
Parrelia made a bad mhtak« ( 
McMahon totally foiled to 
exploit this, and that troubled 
him sorely. It was the begin¬ 
ning of the end. 


The Aussie was Rob 
Parrelia, wtao was born in Italy 
and who emigrated when he 
was 10. He used to play bocci, 
an Italian grand opera version 
of boule, played with enor¬ 
mous great lumps of mend: 
"sort of a cross between bowls 
and shot-putting,” suggested 
the Sydney Morning Herald. 


Parrelia was all histrionics 
and expansive gestures. The 
greatest liberation for him was 
the changes in legislation that 
permitted bowleis to chase 
their bowls along the gr ee n . 
He charges after every shot, 
willing every trundling wood 
into the right place. Throwing 
the things is only half the 
game: the other half clearly 
depends on psycho-kinetic 
power. 


McMahon lost confidence 
in his accuracy, Parrelia got 
fired up, pounding the air at 
every halfiway-decent shot, 
and blasting everything that 
displeased him out of the 
road. He won the gold 25-14. 

McMahon plans to leave 
Hong Kong and is likely to 
become an Australian bowler, 
though there are other op¬ 
tions. As for Parrelia: "1 don’t 
drive the taxis so much any 
mine. I do more hairdressing. 
That and a bit of bowls.” 


It is Australia's first gold in 
bowls singles at the Common¬ 
wealth Games: the New Zea¬ 
landers are impressed, 
anyway. They say be is the 
best Australian underarm 
bowler they have seen since 
ChappelL 


Parrelia is not a person who 
believes that bowls should be 
a staid and stuffy game. For 
example, be was once on an 
assault charge after thumping 
someone on a bowling green. 
Ah, it’s a man's game, is 
bowls. 


Farewell boot 


Bowk — singles, anyway — 
is basically about psycbolqgi- 


Parrefla had watched a 
player picking on an ekieriy 
friend of his. There was a lot 
ofiieedUng going on, a lot of 


Cantwell, the England 
Vit who collapsed 
with amnesia shortly after 
raftering a first round knockout, 
said yesterday that he would not 
box noun ns an m w a i wi r 
Monty Wright, the light-heavy, 
wagbt from Biggleswade who 
suffered a broken cheekbone in 
his first round win and had to 
scratch from the tournament, 
will have an operation in Auck¬ 
land this week. 



From Nicolas Sosunes 
Although by the end of tin 
second day of the Common¬ 
wealth Gaines judo tournament 
England's record of winning 
every category was still intact, it 
had been, in the words of 
middleweight Densign White, 
“touch and go, with more touch 
than go”. 

Sharon Mills, aged 19, from 
Swinion, Manchester, used her 
reliable armtodring skills to add 
a fifth gold, from the middle¬ 
weight division, to the four won 
on Tuesday and it was White, 
the England captain and the 
most highly accomplished tech¬ 
nician in the men’s team who 


very nearly came unstuck. 

He had a difficult struggle in 
the semi-final to overcome the 
raw strength of an Australian, 
Chris Bacon. "I knew when 1 
saw my draw that Bacon would 
be ray hardest fight — there was 
only one throw be tw e en us when 
1 beat him in the British Open 
last year,” White said. 

He had started in a most 
impressive fashion by throwing 
the home favourite Bill Vincent 
with a sparkling tai-otoshi (body 
drop) for ippon (10 points) in 
just 39 seconds. 

White knew it would not be as 
easy against Bacon, aged 20, 
who had trained for three years 
in Kendal and knew White k 
techniques weU, although be 
□early scored with an ouchj-gari 
in the first minute. But three 
minutes into the fight Bacon 
dived under the Wolver¬ 
hampton man’s defence and 
knocked him down for koka 
(three points)! 

White now had to do aU the 
running. He worked hand to 
equalize, but a scoring tech¬ 
nique seemed to evade him. 


received a penalty of three 
points for a negative play and 
nine seconds from the end was 
penalized again, for repeating 
the offence. 

This proved a mere formality 
against Winston Swcatman, of 
Scotland, a mathematician who 
is currently working on star 
duster models at Edinburgh 
University. The Scot was sent 
into orbit with a superb seob 
otoshi (shoulder drop throw) for 
ippon. 

Sharon Mills also had two 10- 
point victories and one more 
testing fight She aitnlocfced 
Nicbda Morris (New Zealand) 
in 49 seconds in the first round 
and used a different manoeuvre 
against Joyce Malley (Northern 
Ireland) but also concluded with 
an annlock. 

Miss Mills was determined to 
put on a good show for ber 
parents who bad sold the family 
estate car to be able to fly out to 
watch ber. "I knew the final was 
going to be my hardest fight,” 
she said after getting the better 
of Karen Hayde. of Canada. 

Mills received special instruc¬ 
tions on hit and ran fighting 
from the women’s team coach, 
Roy Inman, and these worked 
perfectly. She scored five prints 
for yuka from the very first 
shoulder throw and added it 
koka, worth three points a little 
later. Although counted in the 
last minute she managed to 
retain ber lead. 

The six gold medals have pot 
extra pressure on those stiD to 
fight but the team manager, 
Arthur Mapp expects further 
successes. He said: "We are not 
only doing wefl because the 
opposition is not so strong. 
Everyone is giving a lot more of 
themselves because these are the 
Commonwealth Games.” 


YESTERDAY'S RESULTS FROM AUCKLAND 


ATHLETICS 


Women’s marathon 


Old rivals 
to stage 
showpiece 


1. L Martin (Xus). »t 2Snwi 28s«e 2. T 
RuOOe (Aus). 23315; 3, A Pain (Eng). 
23655.4, E BIS (Eng). 237:46, S. 0 Nm 
ffingj. Z39*n; 6. A Annum (CvpJ- 23b 1ft 
7. H Mora mzj. 23930. a, O Lariena 
(Cor}, 241:36; 9. S Caton) (Scot). 
24238.10, S Mswati (Bor), 24821; 11.l 
Harttog (Scot). 247524; 12 M 01401 
WHW. 24832: 12 L Humor (Zkn). 
25252 14, M Pyntflan (Mow), 25530; M 
Butst (NZ). <fid not Brash. 


T Yager) 12 Canada (G Bomrefl and A 
WaHaco)28. Cook wanasr Akarwu and I 
Tuteru) 21; VWes (W thorns and R 
WOaie) 18. Hong Kong (Ho Noon Leung 
and N Kennedy) (8. Canada 28. Wales 19: 
Hong Kong 4fl, Cook Islands 14; tnda 32. 
Botswana 18: Wea*ar« Samoa Z*.NorfoOi 
Island 15; Botawana 13. Weetare Swnoa 
2« Final p u n lWnn a : 1. Canada. 14ptK 2 
Wants, 12 3. Hong Kong. 1ft 4. Western 
Samoa. 8.5. too*. 5. 6, Bott-ano, 4; 7. 
Homo* (stand. 3; S. Cook (stands, a 


ift H OtxamMMuft 
roram^WWagt 35.1ft 


35,m ii. o 


Taxiing along: Parrellx charges after every shot, willing a trundling wood where he wants it 

Irish jaunt brings 




■ Ho (HK). 542. 


CYCLING 


JUDO 


Men 

Under 86 Hbgrams 


Men 

1,000-metre sprint 

FINAL: O Nehrand (Aus) M C Hamad 

and 11.4 


Tomorrow 

BBC1 lane men’s pota vauft flnoL 
245am: manse's h*(*Hump. final. 
■1.30am- women's tong-jump, final. 
*.36 «tv women's 100m hunSoo, final. 
5am: man’s dtacus. final. 6.10am: won- 
w'l 10.000m. final. 230am: Boning, 
finals. 


unexpected medal 


From Peter Bryan 


BADMINTON 


Men’s singles 

QUARTER-FBIALS: Foo KofcKeon^jMa- 


Richie Woodhall. of England, 
will have a gold medal battle 
with hisgreat Canadian rival, 
Ray Downey, in a showpiece 
finale 10 the Commonwealth 
boxing tournament in Auckland 

tomorrow. 

. The two men both clinched 
light-middleweight bronze med¬ 
als at the Seoul Olympics and 
their careers have progressed 
almost in tandem ever since. 

They have clashed twice be¬ 
fore. First,-in the pres li geo us 
1988 Canada Cup when 
Woodhall emerged triumphant, 
but the score was levelled at last 
year's Cup when Downey 
gained revenge on his way to 
taking the gold. 

Woodhall, a 21-year-okl for¬ 
ester from Telford, looked 
slightly sluggish, but sharper 
than in his opening bout, to 
notch a 5-0 semi-final points 
win o%'cr Sililo Fig©la. of West¬ 
ern Samoa. 

The Englishman will be aim¬ 
ing to stop a Canadian run of 
four successive light-middle- 
weight gold medals in the 
Commonwealth Games. 

The progress of Downey, 
theCanadian team captain, was 
far more conclusive than 
Wood hall’s, as he demolished 
the New Zealand hope. Andy 
Clreery, in two rounds. 

Scotland's last hope of a 
boxing gold medal rests with 
Charlie Kane; but the Clyde¬ 
bank light-welterweight's un¬ 
distinguished points win over 
SiefFan Scriggirts, of Australia, 
will hardly inspire confidence in 
his meeting with the Kenyan. 

Ni cod emus Odorr. 

Britain's tally of bronze med¬ 
als was finalized at three with 
the completion of the semi¬ 
finals: Dave Anderson (light¬ 
weight). of Scotland, Mark 
Edwards (middleweight), of 
England, and Raul Douglas 
tsuper-heavyweight), of North¬ 
ern Ireland. 


lay) M M Buttor (Can). 15-0. 

Baddetoy (Eng) M D Hurt* (Can). 15-1ft 
18-15; H SkMi (Malay) bt S Butter (EfifiS. 
IMS, 15-8; D Had (Enctfbt K MWfflefflOS 
(Sect), 15-6,16-2. 

Men’s doubles 

GUARTBt-FlHALS: J Steak and R Steak 
(Malay) tftG Stewart and GRt#son<NZ). 
15-4.19-l:M Johnson and A Good* (Eng) 
MK Harrison and P Home (NZL15-5,15- 
2 B Barnhart and M Bitten (Can} t* CM 
Choi Chan and SJu Kwong Chan (HKJ, 18- 
14. iM: R SUek and Soon Ctwah (Mabnl 
M D Trevors and A mmm (Scot). 15-7. I$- 
2 

Women’s singles 
QtlAOTEA-fMAUfe O Jutan (Can) bt R 
Color (Aus). 11-3.11-5: 0 Thantoar r “ 
M O PWw (Can). 11-6,11-4: FSmMhf 
UMan WO Chan(HIQ. 11-4.11-2 HT 
(Eng) M M Bon (htcft n-5. *-11. il-s. 

Women’s doubtes 

auXRTEB-RfUUA Sul Hon Tan and 
Stow Croon Um (Malay) ME Man and J 
Man (Soot). 15-17. 15-3. 18-15: J 
Fstardaau and D JuNan (Can) M Wal Lang 
Ltf and LaeWai Tan (Malay). 15-9.15-4: 
G Gonrara and □ Clark (Eng) M Man Wa 
Chan and Amy Chan (MO. 15-7.15-10; F 
Snath and S SanMy (Eng) bt J Sta and T 
Wnttakar(NZ), 15-8,15% 

Mixed dotfoies 

OUMrreiFnNALfe Chk Chot Chan and 
Amy Chan (HK) bt M GMMr antf C Sharpe 
(Cm). 15-4. 15-8: S Baddatoy and O 
G o were (Eng) bt M Baton and D Picha 
(Can), 158, 18-1*; M Johnson and S 
Sarny (Ena) bt O S ta wart and R 
RotMwtaon (N2X 155.15& A Goods and 
G Ctotk (Engl bt 0 Tranra and A Naim 
(Scot). 158.1510 


Men’s fours 

SECTION A: Austnrila 37, NorftA (stand 2 
England 27. Wuam Samos 17; Hong 
Kong 3ft ZtaM&we ft W o rtham Ireland 
30. Zntbabwa ifc England 25. Norfolk 
Ift Hong Kong 27. Wa*wm Samoa 
2ft Swszfiand 19. AustreBi 17; Waswn 
Samoa 24. Ztottebtm li: Northern Ire- 
land 35, Swszfiand 13; Wales 32. Norfolk 
v*a* 12 Hong Korn, is. AustraBa 17. 
SECTIONS: Cook islands22. Canada 21: 

Ztotand 21. Zambia 15; Sco&and 21. 
Ptoua New Guinea m: Botswana 22, 
toCta 21; Paoua New GUnaa 34. (nifia 14; 
Cook Islands 19. Zambia 15; Canada 31. 
Botawana ift Scotland 18. New Zealand 
17; tndto 20. Norte* bund 2ft Wales 39. 

Cook (Hands 12 Canada 23, Hong Kong 

1SL 


rosr ROUND: D V**» (Eng) bt w 
Vkaoera (NZL Ippon C Bacon (Aus) W N 
CM (CahL H/sw-oatm W Sna m ro an 
(Soot) W & Woods fcahn). tppon. 

SECOND ROUND: WNta bf Bacon. Chut, 
Swettman bt R Dhangar (kx& Ippon. 


(Can). 2-0 (ll.rosac and fl.41). 
ROE-OFF fOR TMRD PUW*:4 Andrews 
(NZ) 01 0 Spassn (Aus). 2-1 (Spesoof. 
11-73; Andrews, 11.08.11.71). 


SO-fdkxnelro prints race 


REPBDUQE Bacon M Vincent, wsza- 
arfawa ro to Ippon Dhangar bt Woods. 
kxpon. 

FMAL: WMs M SwMVnan. ippon. 


Women 

Under 66 k H o gram e 
FIRST ROtMB: K Hayda (Can) bl N Mi 


1JR Bums (Aua). 81pts; ft C Corawfi (NZ). 
72: 3. A Inline (N Ire). 3ft 4. R Hughes 
(Wales}. 26; 5, S Port* 0oM). 25; 0. P 
Aidrk^e (Jam). 2ft 7. S ' 

12 8TB Aitkan - ' - 

(N Ire). 2ft 10. P( . _ 

Ljxm («). 14; 12 O Baker (Eng), ft 13. Y 
Cojon (Con), 8. 


o ra» imv;, o; n, r 
2ft 7. S Mflngrnra (Eng), 
HAus). 42 9. O McCai 
’ ScatoaitCan). IB: 11. M 


lAuu. Ippon; 8 MOs (Eng) bt N Monte 
(NZ). ippon. 


4,000-metre team purarit 

QUAunotft 11 . Austrafid. 4rem 2ft8faac: 
2 New Zealand, 4^054; ft England. 


BBC1 ft50-9J0am. il.OSom-lpm and 7- 
8 pm, 

Euraagort *Spm and ugitMBmiflht 
Hignagnts of the atghfb and rrindi day. 
WHBams. 155.0. 5. Arnau. 150.0: 8. Bteir. 
150.0. 7, Owe. 1475. B. Mcmtrre. 145.0. 
S. Keens. 135ft 1ft MaHbL I3ftft It, 
Cunningham. 125.0; 12 Ala. 117^; 13, 
Kandoa. 11541. 

COMBINED! 1. Sharma. 295.0kg: 2 
Iquaiboni, 290 0: J. Roach. 280 ft 4. 
WWama. 280ft: 5. BU>r. 2775; ft cure. 
270.0:7. Amau. 270 ft ft Mctntym, 2574: 
8. Keona. 2475: 10, Maaw. 230.0: 11, 
Cunningham. 230ft 12 Koodoo. 2124: 
1ft An. 2125. 


Women’s singles 

SECTION Be S McCnma JSeoQ bt N 
Barttemma (Coc«. 2511: Q Tau (pNQ» M 
J Acktend (Wales). 250: M John st on 
(N Ire) bt T Banner (Can). 2512 K Dodd 
(Quer) MBMd (Zanft 2523. Final 
peaHona: I.Tau, itpts; 2 Johnston, 12 
5. McCrena. 8:4. Ackfend- 8:5. Oodd. 8; ft 
Maft 4; 7, D an tai r m . 4; 8. Refiner, ft 
FINAL: Tau bl M Khan (NZl. 251ft 
PLAY-OFF FOR TMRD fftACE: JoHnsWI 
DC A Hafftni (Aus). 251ft 


SKOHD ROUND: Haytes M D Bmri 
__ i ot j Matey (N ire). 


Mn-art Mb i 


43238: *. Canada, 4*7X7. 

Women 

3,000-metra inrivkhial pursuit 


75 kilograms 
SNATCH: I, KlUondafflnd). 135.0kg; 2 K 
Jonm JWJti), 136ft 3.B Laytocfc (- 


132ft: 


(Can). 130.0: 
BSapetPNQ). 


REPeCHAQE: Ml H Bagnaft wazaart 
Matey M Morris. yt*q 


:MNsbt Hayda. juka 


SHOOTING 


OUAUFVmO ROtmek M Johnson (Eng). 
Aretes 00.70aae M S Dawns (Engy. at 
S-iSsse S McKanzta (MUtoN. 4fti ftS bt a 
S ydor (Can), at 5.71; K-A Way (Can). 
3S9.18 H C Greenwood (Wales), at 19.77; 
K Wan (Aua). 3ft8.01 bt K-A Erdman 
(Can), to 7 88: M Harris (NZ). 333.49 bt D 
Gould |AvaL to Sfttf. 


U> (W 
HoKman (Swaz). 85.0; 
ML 


100ft g; T Mika <W Sami. 9aft'ia°^ 


o Bnm n (Aua), no 


Woman’s tom 


SeCDON A: England 23. Ztotbabwa 22 
Wtortam Stores® tft New Zealand 15: 
Scotland 20. Papua Naw Guinea 17; 
Papua New Gunaa 2ft Waatam Samoa 
14: Witas 22 Scedand 1ft Z moabwe 30. 
Nortote Wand 11: New Zealand 2ft 
extend 13: Swezfiand 25. Zambia ifc 
Austrafia 34, Botsw an a 14; Canada 2ft 
Cook latands Ift (Mates 2ft Norfofit tstend 
11; Hcn ^fton g 20. &»aa<anqi«; Auswa- 

19. 


SmaObare rifle, three positions 
1. M ram|CanLl.i67MK2 M Cooper 
(Eng). 1.154; 3, S Oitoa fired), 1,143; 4, J-F 
eanaeal (Can). 1.142 ft E Adtem INZL 
1.138: ft A Httfwm (AusL 1.136; 7. R 
Smnh ^&*0|^ti13*; ft A Wurfel (Au^. 


GUAM AND JERK 1. Loycocfu 177ftka 
2 Mondd. 170ft 3. Brown. 167.G; 4, 
Gagne. iSZft 5, Layer. 1600: ft Jonea, 
155ft 7. Token. 1375; ft Steps. 135ft 9. 
Ochtang. 130; 10. Mika. 120.0: II, 
HOhnwa 117ft 


OUARTER-fnNAXft way. 33857 bt 
AKKanzin Gouto, 3 56M bt Eidman: 
wan, 35274 w Johnson; Hanto. 3S207 
W Sydor. 


1.134: 


: ft B Law (Scot). 1.133; 10. A Allan 
,1.12ft li, COgto(N Ire). 1.120; 12 
t naangappa (tod), 1,118; 13. L Snutn 
(NZ). 1.112 14. S Wanereon (toM), 1.107; 
15. M Ctaydan (Jto). 1.101; 1ft O 
RateateghejSrfl. 1.06a 17. M Maca 
(NJreLTjWT; 1ft H CraevyfloMJ. 1.070; 
19. i Ooraddaon (Quar). 1X67. 


WBOH7UFTINQ 


_1. Laycock. 310.0kg; 

MondA 305.0:2 Gagne, 292ft 4. 

290ft 5. Jones. 290ft ft Sian. I 
Oewong. 240ft. g. Token, zfr ft 9. Mika. 
210.0; to. H o fhnan. 2025; li. Brown. 
T67-5. 


. 2. 
Loyor, 
i. 242 ft 7. 


Alastair Irvine, whose most 
recent job was in a snooker 
cemrc in Bangor. Co Down, was 
an unlikely medal winner on the 
cycling track for Northern Ire¬ 
land yesterday when he took the 
bronze in the 50km points race. 

Irvine, who has done liule 
track racing, arrived at the 
Manukau velodrome having 
trained there only once, 
accompanied by Northern Ire¬ 
land's other entry, David 
McCalL 

“We came along just to 
support the event, that's air he 
said. “It's the Friendly Games, 
«e have nothing to lose so 
David and I decided just to get 
stuck in and see what 
happened." 

Irvine was one of the six 
members of Northern Ireland's 
team which was picked to 
concentrate on the 100km road 
time trial and the 105 miles road 
race. The track events were 
never seriously entertained, os 
the team wanted to repeat or 
improve on its bronze medal in 


teand* 14,- Zbntew 20. 


BOWLS 


SamHiPais 

BANTAMWEUHT: 

cnr * m “isa 


(MOtotelM. 


G Ste (Can) M W 
... Pte: S Mohammad 
Cbtowanea (Zam), pis. 


Rapid-fire pistol 

1. A Breton (Quw). 683ptK 2 P Murrey 
3. M Jay (WWmL 57ft 4. J 

_ _l 574:8. 

MHowkte* (Core. 571; 7. B Guana (Ena), 
Wft 8. B D-NMa (NZ), 565. ft M SnMH 
(NZ! S55:10, 5 WHS (Can). 560: MuM 1 1, 
Yki-Kta Lntaig (WO. 547: 11. G Stem 


~BOXMQ »<eWA£9SbSUa 

. — — 1 —- —" I — U UVd (Ti. a a imL wn 


Revised results offer 
disqualifications 

67-5 kflograms 

SNATCH: 1. P Sterna (Mffl. 130.0kg: 21 

UMtoORIPUMna). 130ft ftM ewMAuaj. 

iZTft 4. M Roach (WWML 1250: 5. R 
HNfiama (WNra), 125ft 8. n ewe fCan|. 
122ft 7. P Amau (Can). 120 . 0 ; a, T 
McIntyre (NZ). 1125: 9. L ftaana ntZL 
112ft 10, N Cunrr;;;!nni (Son). 105 ft 
11, P Maori (PNG). 100ft 12 K Kandoa 
(PNG). 97ft 1ft LAia (Soft 96ft 


Breton makes 
history after 


the time trial in Edinburgh, an 
aim in which they were un¬ 
successful. 

Irvine and McCall, un¬ 
daunted by the reputation and 
ability of the track specialists, 
got “stuck in ” as promised. 
Although McCall was brought 
down in a crash Irvine was 
always prepared to attack and 
take on the opposition alone. 

As Jryinc left the velodrome, 
with his bronze modal still 
around his neck, he was des¬ 
perate to know whether he 
would be in the team for 
Saturday's doting event, the 
road race. A decision on the 
line-up has been delayed. 

England are unlikely to field 
their best road man, Ben 
Luclcwc.il. The Bristol rider has a 
knee injury following a bizar re 
accident. His handlebars 
snapped during a race yesterday, 
jamming his front wheel with 
such force that the machine’s 
forks also broke. Luckwell was 
taken to hospital for treatment 
and released. 


A um Autonrio; 0»r Bormuda: Bne Bru¬ 
te; BVfc BtoWl Virgin laiancw. Cwe 
Csnaoc Cook: Cook Manat; Cyn 
Cyctom Eng: England. Ote Gnana, Otoe 
Derate; Goar Oorrt*»y, Our: Guyana: 
Mb Hong Kong todt India: toM: bio ot 
MtoK Jane Jamaica: Jar Jw^ Ken: 


Troke forced 
to fight for 


anxious wait semi-final spot 

Adrian Breton was the toast of — * 

Guernsey yesterday when he 


Kenya: Law Lesotho: Matey: Mofeysu; 
Makt Matohnn: Mteur: Maunti». NZ: Now 


GLEAN Alto) JERK: 1. Sharma. l8Sfthg: 
2 Muoibom. 180ft a Reach, iSSftT 


Mon’a singles 

FMAL.- R PnreBa (Aua) M M McMtonn 
paq. 25-14. 

Mon’a pairs 

SECTION a- England (Q Sretoi and A 
Thomeon) 25. Quenter (N La Ber end M 

- - --- - - Bltor and G 

Mereuand 
. _ joewa (W 
Cunoiwng and H IMfl Mn i an) 27. Pspiia 
Now Guteog (P Qumo aid k Toraoi 16. 
AuonBa (T Morae ana I Soubech) 2*. 
Nonttem firiand (V Date and E Penon- 
oanl 20: Jmnr 32 Papua Nm Gumw 12 
Soraond 26. Austrafia 2ft 


UQHT-WELTERWEIQKT: N Odore KM 

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TODAY AND TOMORROW 


Zealand,- Mire: Noroiwn Ireland, Pwu 
POUSBVI. PMCb Papua Now Qurew: Seat 
Santana. Say: Saychate: Sat: Solomon 
Wanda; Srfc Srt LnnKn. Swaz: Swaziland: 
Uqk Uganda: W Sam: Wasiore Samoa; 
Zom: Zemtno: Ztac Zfinboowa 


won first Commonwealth 
Games gold medal for the 
Channel Island ia the rapid-fire 
pistol. 


M A Mmntoa (Zami. 

bi <3 Chaney \Aua).rec lot red 


■nomsore iwwj l» 

De CorwreQ 2ft Seated (A ( 
Habor ao re 21, Jersey (0 Lu 
told u CauUufy) 14; Zjrvl 


UONr-fiBOtXJEWEMHT) R _ 

gntfbt S Flgpca M Sam), pta: R Oownw 
(Con) (a A Oaary (HZ), rsc Znd md. 

EWBrarr: « lvvm rana) bt c 
(UM. ret ®no md. c jonnoon 
m Eaw*re» i 


MSymesandR Bresaay)2D. Engtana 17; 
Guomoey 23. Zhitoabm 1*. Sooaana 24. 


(Can) HMEdwards fEng), pts. 
SUP&l-teAVYWE»HT. M Kenny (NZ) 
V LoMamr (Conj. oo. L AJteuan (Oia) 
P Dougtas (N b*}. nc 2nd red. 


Today's pro gram ma 
ATHLETICS: ISftft Men s SOcm waft 
21A5 Women's lOteMft 
BAOMWTON; 220ft Afi a««nB ptoy Off tor 
branza medtoa. 

SOWUb 2000 Woman's tours, send- 
BnaJO. 

totOOTMO: 2000 Smtotoore rtfla pure. 
Shooi mdnnduai tacond 10ft. runrang Door 
to* mawtaoL 21A5: " “ 
pnanefinto 


a * P44doON: 05.0ft rintoa In afi erenta 
BOWLS: 00.30 Woman's Mura, final, 
aaxwftosao- Finn. 

JUDO: 01.Oft Man's and woman's fiom- 
waigftt 0800 . hten's ana women's non 


WOOTWQ: MJdnigftt' Contra (Ira. 


Quarnsay 2 S: Jjrrejr m. ZMbabwa ift 


woiB i am MM is. Now 7aatend 22; 
Encana 18. Ausbafifl 24. Final potodoo*; 
1, Aiwtrefia. Ups; 2 Now Zteand, IA 3. 
Engtend. ift A Soodand. 8.5, Guernsey, 
8; B. Srebobyn. 8.7, Narthern Ireland, 4; 
8. Jersey. 4; 0, Papua Now O to n aa. 2 
SECnON B: Wesiani Samoa (P aw find t 
R aaanq 24, Indt (V Oteren end S 
Rernpurte) 17; Botswana (T Footer and J 

tetandflfl 


GYMNASTICS 


WoPtoti'a rhytht ni c 


Kakakte)i8.Nortaaa 


ALL-ttOUHOit. MFuJwHCtoD.OTtertr 
2. M Obnottt (Can). 37^5; 2 A Wtohor 
(HZ). 3690:4. VStoJan (Enel. 3855; 5. S 
Cushman (Con). 3845: 6. R Jack mZL 
36^0; 7, S Wld (Aua). 358ft 8. K r 
(NZ). 35u75: S. D SouesMefc ( 


T omorrow's prapanra 
AlliUTicft m Oft Marfa tonton. oitoVy- 
Ing: morrs BUM Jump, ramming, men B 
stioL OUSHMI0 Or JKt Man s pula *oi4L 
final. 02.10: minei'i 4 a lOOro retoy. 
iNMte. 023ft Man’idx lOOmmtey.naets. 
0255: woman's 1 . 500 m. neats. 030ft 
Woman'* tong dtoto. Ural C3lS: Worn- 
ens Ngh lump. Onto. Cftaft Man's 
IJSOOm. rweta M.15. Man's dacus. fimd. 
04js: woman's lOOas htrt w s. Anal. 
0505; woman's 4 > 400m (stay, neats. 
0540:Man's4«400mretay.lwsa 08.10: 
Mtoman's KMXKkn, flnoL 


Today 

8SC1 130am; man's MglHume. final 
330am men's lorto-fumo. <re( 4onr 
woman's OOftn, finaL 4J0«m: men's 
800m. nnto. 4 aaanr woman'4 200m. final 
Sene woman's |a«afin. final. 5.10am. 
men's200m. final B iCam- man * 5.000m. 
fintL 830am: Bcamg. tmtto. 


f -.MEDALS 




a 

9 

8 

Total 

AutorsBa 

43 

43 

45 

131 

Canada... 

29 

27 

23 

79 

Erxjand_ 

26 

23 

27 

78 

hVSn--- 

12 

7 

10 

29 

wmm .— .. 

0 

5 

7 

21 

W—Zeeland — 

0 

fl 

14 

30 

Kenya—. 

2 

4 

3 

g 

Nigeria_ 

1 

8 

4 

u 

Scotland.... 

1 

4 

0 

ii 

Nauru---- 

1 

2 

0 

3 

BangiadMl^.... 

1 

a 

1 

2 

Jersey- 

1 

0 

1 

2 

Guernsey._ 

I 

O 

0 

1 

Jamtuda.. 

1 

O 

a 

1 

Paoua N Gunoa. 

1 

0 

0 

1 

N Ireland. _ 

a 

i 

4 

5 

Hong Kong._ 

0 

i 

2 

3 

Zimbabwe 

0 

i 

1 

2 


Breton, aged 27. waited two 
hours before he learnt ihat his 
loul of 583 points had brought 
him a one-point victorv over 
Patrick Murray, of Au’siraJia. 
Michael Jay. of Wales, took the 
bron;c. 


^ c all shoot 30 rounds and 1 
was (he first on today, so I did 
my bn and then had io bane 
around." Breton said. 


Malcolm Cooper, or Haylinp 
Island, who has won 27 Olym- 
p«c, world. European and 
Lommon wealth t,ties. per- 
formed well below his best to 
. r L ni5 ^*'‘ h ,hc si,v cr medal m 
,h *. ‘hret-pownon nfle event. 
«7ih Man Mcpp. 0 f Cana ^' 
inking the gold. 


Cooper 


MCI ft30-92Com. Il.OSom-lpm and 7- 
taa. 

ftUROSPOfinh *6 ms lO-tlpm: Hieh- 
figm of aavsrm ana atgfan day. 


Zanaao ...„ 

TvuarM_ 

u^anat.... _ 

Western Samoa.. 

Bahamas-_ 

Guyana--- 


was deducted two 
poinis when n was claimed he 
Ud o 41 ,r «icad of ihe 
required 40 shots in the kneeling 
section, a protcM by the Eng¬ 
land team was rejected. 


The No. I seed, Helen Troke, 
who is attempting to win the 
women’s singles title for tint 
thud successive time, had to 
struggle for nearly tat hoar 
before reaching the sead-fisais 
at the Couuaeawealth Game* 
Troke. from SoathasnpfnB, 
beat Madhumita Bisht, of India. 
11-5. 4-ll. 11-6 to iota tint 
English champion, Fiona Smith, 
of Gnildford. in the last fow- 
Smith beat Chan Man Wa, of 
Hoitg Kong, H-4,11-2 
Darren Hall, the English 
champion, from Chfanfonl. and 
Steve Bad delay. «f Enfield, 
reached (he senti-fbtals of the 
men's slnglesJiall beat Ken 
Middlemiss, of Scotland. 15-6, 
15-2 and Beddelcj defeated 
Darid Humble, of Canada. IS- 
10 18-15. 

The only England pair hi the 
wen’s doubles. Miles Johnson, 
of Deson, and Andy Goode, of 
Hertfordshire, are (faroegh to 
f he aen ti-final# while GiUlao 
Cower*, from Hcrtfordshirr, 
nnd GflUan Clark, of Whahle- 
don, the holders, and Smith and 
Sara Sankey, of Southport, obo 
came throogh to the bat font. 






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THE TIMES THURSDAY FEBRUARY 1 1990 


F OOTBAL L: SCOTLAND CONTINUE THEIR WORLD CUP PREPARATIONS BY ENLISTING THE SKILLS OF A FORMER FAVOURITE 


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: v*r;;Genniny, Argentina and 
A Spain, uritt accompany die 
' ’Scota-when they travel to Italy 

! =jfe' to begin theiratiempt to reach 
l®Jr tbe -second stage at the first 
|Xs timeof asking. 
^/.vRocdmi^i said: “Joe win 

5.: hefous in a number of 

£ capaci ti es. Basicafly, he wifl be 

S^a puWic relations officer 
avJbecsuise he ttpeaks fluent Ital- 
i ' ian, winch he packed up in his 
S. playing days with AC Milam 

> . nit he also has the knowledge 
■ to he helpffil on the tadming i 
v..~ : side. For example, I could 
r 0 : fore see that h e would watch 
the opposing teams in our 
= group, and give us the benefit 
/■_ ofiaa a ss essm en t of them.” 

Callaghan 
i says fee 
is too high 

By-Chris Moore 

Nigel Chllaghan. rtf 1 Aston veto, 

' the transfer-seeking winger, last 
night accused Graham Taylor, 
^ the manager, of pricing him out 
tf oftbemarkei.’TappreciateVilla 
■want their money back but for 
that to happen I need to be in 
the first tom," ffriiaghnn said. 
He'cost £500,000 from Derby 
County almost a year ago. 

Since being dropped in 
September he has ™d« only 
one appearance, as substitute. “[ 

• ham shown a lot of patience by 
keeping my head down and 

!. co nc entrating on my game but 
t that is getting me nowhere,” he 
I said. 

! “I am just wasting my career 

and have no chance of being 
picked for the first team. That is 
the manager’s but the 

1 price-be bar put on me. is 
frightening off other dubs. I j 
wooftrhavet!KM^£300^XX) 1 
rather titan £500,000 was a fair ' 
figure.” 

• Sheffield United'have com¬ 
pleted the signing of the Hall 
City fo r ward Billy Whitehurst 
for a fee ofJE35,000 but he will 
not be included in the team to 

i play Hull on Saturday. ' . 

’ • Scarborough have signed 

Kevin Dixon, a forward from 
YoricCfty. on a month's loan. 
Dixon; who has been left out of 
the York team since the signing 
of David Longhurst from Peter¬ 
borough, will make his Scar¬ 
borough debut against 
Colchester on Saturday. 

• Steve Archibald, the former 
Scottish international forward, 
has signed signed for EspanoU 
die Spanish' second division 
chib and cpuld play in Sunday's 
game against promotio n rivals 
CasteUAn. 

Archibald passed a stiff medi¬ 
cal examination in a Barcelona 
dime 'before becoming the 
Spanish dub’s third overseas 
player. 

The £100,000 fee will be paid 
direct to the player, who bought 
out the remainder of his con- 
■ tract with Hibernian Last week 
£ before flying to Spain to nego¬ 
tiate terms with Espafiol, who 
have agreed to employ Archi¬ 
bald for the remainder of this 
season. But if they are pro- 
motedt -he will receive a bonus 
and the option to extend his 
contract for a further season. 

Archibald, aged 33, who 
played for Barcelona until 1988, 
<B»id he was happy to return to 
the city of Barcelona, although 
he claimed to have received 
offers from two dubs in Britain. 

BASKETBALL 

Tournament 
rescued by 
the Danes 

Denmark have confirmed that 

they will take the place of wales 
in the international men s tour¬ 
nament at the Kelvin _ HaU, 
Glasgow, from Apnl 20 to ~2, 
which also includes England 
and Ireland. _ ^ 

The organizers had been “ft 

It with a severe headache when the 

* Welsh pulled out, as they felt 
they could use the money they j 
had available to give them more 

S&jS&SSSUB 

to flu the void and JwD JJJjJ 
Srpi friyf, England and Ireland 
fo the tournament f 

“The Danes will be oi a 
similar standard to °“* s ®| ves 
and England," Ken Johnston, 
the technical director of the 
SB A, said. “But if we on' 
wdl as we did against Sweden 
last September and Javeevoy 
one available, 1 

chances of bearing Denmark 

■tasrti —&* **■ 

land in an under-17 
4 -national a fbrtni^ttomoriowm 
** Corby. Pupils 
moufo High and 
High makeup almost batfof . t r5 
squad, which was announced 

yesterday. . «, gico 

The Scottish 

participate in the. F «JLS^ 
tries Tournament in Carom on 
March 9 and 10. 


view of his playing career with 
Sampdoria — one of the two 
Genoa teams — but the Rang¬ 
ers manager had already made 
other arrangements for the 
same period. 

Roxburgh’s next ploy to 
enlist the support of the 
Genoa football fraternity wifi 
take (dace on Sunday, Fcb- 
ntaiy 11, when a local detby 
takes place at the Luigi 
Ferraris stadium, which 
been reconstructed for the 
fin al s with a capacity of 
43,058, and where Scotland 
will play Costa Rica and 
Sweden. At halftime in the 
match between Genoa and 
Sampdoria, a Scottish squad 


entry City’s new acquisition 
from Dundee United, Kevin 
Ga B ach e r, as contenders 
The Aberdeen captain, Wil¬ 
lie Miller, was named in the 
travelling party, although he 
has been injured for some 
time. Miller played last night 
against Buckie Thistle in an 
Aberdeenshire Cup tie at 
Pittodrie, and Roxburgh 
would like to have him on 
hand by the time he is obliged 
to make his u l t imat e selection, 
although the return to first 
team action of Gary Gillespie, 
of Liverpool, may squeeze 
Milter out of the final reckon¬ 
ing, at least in a playing 
capacity. 



StfSigS 




Courtney selected 
in referees’ panel 


By Steve Acteson 


Geotge Courtney has been cho¬ 
sen as the only English referee 
who will officiate at the World 
Cup finals in Italy next summer. 

In a break with precedent, 
however, the hosts and France 
will provide two referees each. 
In the past FIFA, the game’s 
governing body, has never se¬ 
lected more than one official 
from the same country* 

There were mixed feelings at 
the Football Association. Colin 
Downey, the Fa referees sec¬ 
retary, expressed delight that 
Courtney, aged 48, from 
Spennymoor, County Durham, 
had been chosen for the second 
successive World Cup but was 
disappointed at the exclusion of 
the Sheffield referee, Keith 
HacketL 

Conrmey, who is in the first 
year of bis “extension” having 
readied the official retirement 
age, has refereed FA League, 
liEB V amJC np r Winners’ Cup 
finals.and was on duty last night 
at the FA Cup replay between 
Liverpool and Norwich. 

Hadcett, aged 45, was the only 
English referee at the European 
Championships, and Downey 
said: “Although Keith has had 
injury problems be has com- 
ptetely recovered and certainly 
we hoped he would be chosen 
because we regard George and 
Keith as very much on a par in 
terms of ability." 

Alan Shoddy, from Belfast, 
will be one of the youngest 
World Cup referees at the age of 



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VMenw (Portugal). 


M 

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(Danmark), c SOca 


Cambridge spurred by 
greater ‘will to win’ 


Where Bristol City, of the third 
division, led the way on Sat¬ 
urday by beating Chelsea 3-1, 
Cambridge United, of the 
fourth, followed on Tuesday 
night. 

They beat Mfihndl by virtue 
of a bizarre own goal from the 
centre back, David Thompson, 
whose !I6tb-minute back-pass 
beat his goalkeeper. Keith 
Branagan, from 25 yards despite 
a strong wind blowing away 
from the goat _ 

Cambridge, who play Bristol 
City in the fifth round, deserved 
their victory, but this was no 
consolation to John Docherty, 
the mf"»Ber of MiDwall, who 
managed Cambridge in the most 
successful period in the club’s 
history, nor to Branagan, once 
of Cambridge, who played bril¬ 
liantly before being undone by 
his colleague. 

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was far greater and that is what 
sealed it for us.” 

Dave Bassett, the manager of 
Sheffield United, made a hap¬ 
pier return to an old hunting 
round. He went back to Vic¬ 
arage Road, where he was 
briefly the manager of Watford, 
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with Barnsley. Bassett said: 
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unbeaten run of 11 matches 
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Front-nmners in tbe fair-play league: Matthews and Di Stelano, oat on their own as former leaders of England and Spain 

An award for fair play in a foul world 


35 and Scotland will have a 
representative in George Smith, 
of Edinburgh. 

FIFA have named 36 referees, 
including 19 from Europe, seven 
from Latin America, three each 
from Africa, Asia and 
CONCACAF, the North and 
Central American federation. 
ami one from Oceania, Richard 
Lome; of Australia. A two-day 
course win be held in Pisa in 
March to ensure that all referees 
interpret the rules in the same 
way. 

Downey approved the list of 
European names, saying: “I am 
sure they are the men then- 
countries would have wished to 
see appointed.” 

He was not surprised at the 
dual representations nor that the 
non-qualifiers, Denmark and 
Northern Ireland, are repre¬ 
sented while some of the quali¬ 
fiers. inducting the Republic of 
Ireland, are not. .• 

“The referees are very much 
chosen on merit from FIFA 
performances and next time you 
may well have several re fe rees 
from one country and mine 
from another," Downey said. 

EUROPEAN WORLD CUP REFEREES: M 
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By David Miller 

With the reparation of football 
farther depressed by the find¬ 
ings of the Taylor Report, there 
could hardly have been a better 
Moment for the laaaeft yesterday 
of Ae Stanley Matthews Fair 
May Trophy. 

Sponsored by Uobro Inter¬ 
national and backed by Ae 
Football Association, the Foot¬ 
ball League and the PFA, the 

Selling up 
puts Luton 
into profit 

The Km ii n of Luton 

Town published yesterday show 
that the st rag glin g first division 
dob would have lost more than 
£l mflHoa last season bat for the 
sale of their Kenilworth Rood 
ground to the local council for 
CL2S mflKon, aad the sale of the 
forward player, David Oldfield, 
to Manchester City aad the 
defender, Mai Donaghy, to 
Manchester United, for £2.4 
mflllon (Steve Actes o n writes). 

Even offset by player pur¬ 
chases the m a n ag er , Mick 
Harford, showed a profit of 
£600,000 on transfer dealings 
bat overall the dub made a profit 
of only £586,000. 

The repayment of debts to 
directors were the main 
outgoings. David Evans, the 
chairman until June, was repaid 
a loan of £801,000 and also 
received £221,009 interest. 

Other directors received 
smaller sons, with the new 
ch ai rm an, Roger Smith, being 
repaid a loan of £397,000 and 
paid interest of £85^KN>. 

In December Lctoa sold Roy 
Wegerie to Queens Park Rang¬ 
ers for £1 mfllion and another 
forward player, Mick Harford, 
to Derby County for £480400. 
Lotos are second from bottom la 
the first division. 

• The Football Association of 
Wales (FAW) is looking into a 
report that Manchester United 
barred a Cardiff-horn youngster 
on their books from playing for 
Wales. 

The FAW and Ae Weld 
Schools FA have been told that 
United stopped Ryan Wilson 
from playing In n UEFA nnder- 
16 international in November 
became they f e a red that the 
appearance would bare led to 
him being classifi e d as a “for¬ 
eign player” at Old Tnfibrd, 
niider rates proposed by UEFA. 

The regulation would restrict 
the number of “foreign” players 
a team can use in UEFA 
coapetitio&s aad United ward to 
have Ryan available when Eng¬ 
lish dobs are allowed back into 
Europe. The rate c h ange is doe 
to be dSscnssed in Stoc kho l m 
tomorrow and could be im¬ 
plemented In 1992. A dan s e In it 
would designate Welsh and 
presumably Scottish players 
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trophy will be presented an¬ 
nually to the dab, team or 
individual that. In the opinion of 
the selection panel. Is considered 
to have represented the ideals 
by Matthews in his 
33-year playing career. 

Sir Stanley, who celebrates 
his 7SA birthday today, will 
head the panel of judges that 
includes Graham Kelly, Gordon 
Taylor and David Dent. At the 
tamM-H of the trophy in London 


yesterday, Bobby Robson, the 
England team manager, said: 

“Stan Matthews graced the 
game and he epitomized 
sportsmanship hi miwt 

competitive of games. Through¬ 
out hit career players tried to 
mark him oat of the par, yet 
never once did be retaliate to the 
roughest tackling. The self- 
discipline of his Ufe, oa and off 
the field, was an example to alL” 


Matthews was never booked. 

R obson said that die concept 
of the trophy wns weO timed, 
when the game was under snch 
scrutiny for its behaviour on and 
off the pitch. “Any award that 
helps achieve better sportsman¬ 
ship is well worth having,” 
Robson said. No min a tio ns for 
the trophy will be invited 
thmag h the media from football 
supporters, players and ad¬ 
ministrators. 


New chairman at Bradford 


The Bradford City chairman. 
Jack Tordoff, is to sell his 81 per 
cent holding to a consortium ted 
by Terry Fountain, the present 
vice-chairman, David Thomp¬ 
son, the dub's finance director 
and an unnamed Manchester 
businessman (Martin Sear by 
writes). Fountain, who controls 
various businesses in the North 
and Midlands, is expected to 
become the new chairman. 

Tordoff enjoyed a period of 
success after be bought out 
Stafford Hegmbotham, as under 
the management of Terry 
Dolan, Bradford came within 
two points of winnings place in 
the first division. But this 
season has been disappointing 
and the team, now managed by 
Terry Yorath. are struggling in 
the lower reaches of the table. 

Fountain is unlikely to make 
changes for he said yesterday: 
“My policy will be to get behind 
Terry Yorath. the team and the 
administration and give them 
my foil backing. 


• Crystal Mace's Zenith Data 
Systems Cup southern area 
semi-final with Swindon, post¬ 
poned on Tuesday because of a 
waterlogged pitch, will be played 
at Selhurst Park next 
Wednesday. 

• The FA Cup fifth round game 
between Sheffield United and 
Barnsley has been made all¬ 
ticket with a 33,000 capacity. 

• Paddy Roche, the former 
Republic of Ireland and 
Manchester United goalkeeper, 
reteased by Halifax Town six 
months ago, has rejoined the 
fourth division dub as their 
football in the community 
officer. 

• Chariton Athletic have had to 
rearrange their first division 
match against Luton Town 
scheduled for February 17 
because Crystal Palace have first 
use of Selhurst Park fru* their FA 
Cup fifth round tie aganst 
Rochdale. The Chaiiton-Luton 
game will now be played on 
February 19. 


McCartney hits the target in cup 


By George Ace 


Clifton ville...... 

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Glentoran—. 

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Only Bam United, a junior side, 
separate Glentoran from a quar¬ 
ter-final place in the Bass Irish 
Cup as the East BeHhst team 
defeated CliftonviUe Solitude 
yesterday 1-0 in a fifth round 
replay. 

Gary McCartney, the Glen¬ 
toran centre forward,, headed 
home in the 63rd minute after 


Prentice, the Cliftonville goal¬ 
keeper. completely missed a 
Cleland corner from the right. It 
was McCartney’s 26th goal of 
the season. 

CliftonviUe strove hard for 
the equalizer and Muldoon. the 
captaut. looked to have given 
his side a lifeline only for 
Morrison to dear bis low shot 
off ihe line with six minutes 
remaining. 

It was a typically dour cup-tie 
in which Clifton ville had five 
players booked and Glentoran 


Irish make TV protest 


Republic of Ireland football 
representatives will meet Eng¬ 
lish offidals this week to seek 
compensation for the screening 
of live League and cup matches 
which dash with their domestic 
programme. 

The Irish say the televised 
English games are affecting gates 
at their league matches and they 
have arranged a meeting with 
English representatives on Fri¬ 
day. 

The Football League says that 
Irish viewers are pirating the 
television broadcasts, so there 
are no grounds for compensa¬ 
tion, but the Irish are still 

SKIING 

Hopes raised 
for British 
services event 

Snow feu in Megfeve, France, 
last week, but it was too late to 
save the World Cup men's 
super-giant slalom tins week¬ 
end. However, fears have been 
eased about the prospects for 
bolding the 58th Portacabin 
British Services International 
Alpine championships — the 
patron is HRH the Duchess of 
York - which begin on Sunday 
(a Special Correspondent 
writes). 

The British Service teams will 
again be competing for their Ski 
Challenge Cup, and the Army 
will be ont to repeat last year's 
double success in the men’s and 
women's races. Within the inter¬ 
national event, competing 
tMim from Germany, Australia, 
Spain, France and the United 
States will be challenging the 
I talian Aipiiii, who have domi¬ 
nated this competition 

National conscription ensures 
that the Continental teams field 
skiers on the fringe of the World 
Cup circuit 

• VEYSONNAZ: The wom¬ 
en’s World Cup downhill sched¬ 
uled for MinbeL France, on 
February 10 will be run here in 
Switzerland on Biday, the 
International Ski Federation 
(FIS) said yesterday. A FIS 
official said lack of snow in the 
French resort had forced the 
downhill to be moved but 
Meribel would stage a super- 
giant slalom on February 11. 


confident a deal can be reached. 

Dr Tony O'Neill, general 
secretary of the Football Associ¬ 
ation of Ireland, said: “We have 
to accept that the TV signal is 
received here in a pirated bans, 
but the English body must also 
accept that League of Ireland 
soccer is very badly bit by being 
in direct competition with TV 
soccer. 

“We are counting on the good 
will of the Football League to 
give us the necessary backing 
this time, once they are made 
aware, once again, of how 
seriously our game is affected by 
the live televising of games 
under their control.” 


one by a somewhat over-zealous 
referee. 

Glentoran, with Neill solid at 
the back and Paterson ever-alert 
in goal, had the better of the 
second half territorially but 
Muldoon was the rock their 
attack foundered on. 

The teams meet again next 
Wednesday at the same venue 
in a quarter-final of the 
Budweiser Cup. 

Both rides carved out the half- 
chance in the opening period, 
but the defences were on top and 
the march, delayed for IS min¬ 
utes. was goalless at the intervaL 

Dungannon Swifts, another 
junior ride, caused the shock of 
the round by eliminating 
Ballymena United, the holders, 
4-2 on penalties. It was goalless 
after 90 minutes and 1-1 when 
the extra time ended. The 
winners are away to Newry 
Town in the next round. 

The other fifth round replay 
scheduled for last nigbt between 
the RUC and Bangor was 
postponed. 

CLIFTONVIUE P Ptenttoo. M OamMy, P 
Mumhi, J Muldoon. w Hannsy. P Murray. 
G Corrigan, DAnnsnono (auteS (rCmBL 
w Drake, T BiesSn, K unjgtvan (sub: R 

GLElSroRAft: A Paterson. G NaO. S 
Heath, R Morrison, J Devine. B Bowers. J 
Jameson, W Castey, G McCartney (sub: 
W Tottan). G W* (cube S Doughs). T 
Cleland. 

Raft nae. - J Parry. 


MOTOR SPORT 


McLaren unruffled by 
deadline on Senna fine 


By John Blnnsdea 


An air of calmness and 
preoccupation with prepara¬ 
tions for the Formula One 
season were evident at the 
McLaren team’s headquarters in 
Woking yesterday, despite a 
FISA spokesperson insisting 
that the team had until 5pm 
today to pay the $100,000 
(about £60,000) fine imposed on 
Ayrton Senna if the team was to 
compete in the 1990 world 
championship. 

This will be an extension of 
the deadline because, according 
to the tulebook of the governing 
body, January 31 was the date 
by which all matters concerning 
team entries had to be resolved 
— teams arc responsible for the 
payment of fines imposed on 
their drivers — while February 
IS is the deadline for drivers to 
be nominated and licensed for 
foe season. 

However, FISA, the sport’s 
governing body has a history of 
being prepared or obliged to be 
flexible with dates, and it is 
highly unlikely that the 
McLaren chief executive, Ron 
Dennis, whose attention to de¬ 
tail and tying up loose ends is 
reknowned, would be on holi¬ 
day overseas for the next week if 
matters were not under control. 

It is inconceivable that this 

year’s world championship will 
take place without the McLaren 
team, or Ayrton Senna, with 


Gerhard Berger, as one of the 
team's two drivers/The issue in 
doubt is what accommodation 
the various parties involved will 
be making to ensure that this 
happens. 

FISA, cm behalf of the um¬ 
brella organization FZA, needs 
McLaren on the starting grid 
and if the governing body had 
any doubt on that score, 
McLaren's financial partners, 
Honda and Philip Morris (Marl¬ 
boro). will have taken steps to 
remove it, if only to protect their 
investment in Formula One. 

A report yesterday that Frank 
Williams has offered Nigel 
Mansell a £7 million induce¬ 
ment to leave Ferrari and return 
to Williams was greeted with 
laughter at the team base in 
Didcot. “There is no truth in the 
story whatsoever,” a member of 
the team said. 

• NTEDERZISSEN: The West 
German Formula One team, 
7akspcc<l, has been forced out of 
the sport by tack of sponsorship 
(Reuter reports). Erich 
Zakowski. the owner, said that 
after continuing problems with 
the equipe’s modified Yamaha 
engine, Zakspeed’s last possible 

sponsor had refused support one 
day before the last registration 
dale for die season. 

Zakowski said he would 
freeze his team's Formula One 
activities for a year. 


• Henry Kissinger, the former 
United States Secretary of State, 
has taken charge of the paper¬ 
work necessary for the Chelsea 
forward, Roy Wegerie, to be 
granted American citizenship in 
lime for him to play for the US 
in the World Cup in Italy. 

• The Chelsea chairman, Ken 
Bates, told a High Court libel 
jury yesterday that he was 
fuming for days after reading a 
newspaper story portraying him 
as a “scrooge”. Bates said he hid 
the Daily Mirror from bis wife, 
Pamela, because he knew she 
would go “bananas” if she saw 
it. 

• The Netherlands may know 
by the end of February whether 
Ruud Gullit will be fit for the 
World Cup finals, his Belgian 
surgeon, Marc Martens, said 
yesterday after examining Gullit 
at his Pdlemberg clinic. He said 
the player was malting good 
progre ss after a third knee 
operation in early December. 


SPORT 


ICE SKATING 

Lebedeva 
leaves 
her rivals 
trailing 

From John Hennessy 
Leningr ad 

The one title that had seemed to 
be a doubtful proposition for the 
Soviet Union at the start of the 
European figure skating 
championships now seems to be 
safely in their keeping. 

To compensate for the loss of 
Alexander Fadeyev with an 
injured back, which casts a 
doubt on their hold on the 
men’s championship, Natalya 
Lebedeva, second last year and 
the statistical successor to Clau¬ 
dia Leistscr, now a professional, 
put dear daylight between her¬ 
self and her pursuers with a 
dean and competent original 
programme at the Lenin Sports 
Complex. 

Those who lay nearest to her 
after the figures tended yes¬ 
terday to crumble under the 
special strain of a programme 
which inflicts serious penalties 
for any misdemeanours. 

In particular, Patricia Neske. 
of West Germany, third last 

year, ducked the triple salchow 
in the combination, which did 
not inhibit the British judge, 
Wendy Utley, from awarding 
her 53 for technical merit. A 
mark of 5.5 for presentation also 
seemed more than a touch 
generous. 

Lebedeva has a lead of 23 
points, which means that third 
place in tonight’s free skating 
would be enough to win the title. 
Even that pre-supposes that the 
winner of the free should hap¬ 
pen to be Evelyn Grossmann. of 
East Germany. 

Emma Murdoch, the British 
champion, played safe with a 
double axel in the combination 
and, with that safely tucked 
away, went through her pro¬ 
gramme without a flaw. 

The second British skater. 
Andrea Law. suffered two disas¬ 
ters, felling on a triple toe loop 
in the combination and later the 
mandatory double axel. She 
now lies 23rd and takes no 
further part in the champion- 
ships, as only the top 20 qualify 
for tonight’s free skating. 

The men’s compulsory figures 
exactly matched expectations, 
up at the sharp end at least, with 
Richard Zander, the West Ger¬ 
man specialist, taking pride of 
place. Immediately behind, 
however, there lurk the three 
principal challengers for the 
gold medal in the absence of 
Fadeyev. They are Viktor 
Petrenko, of the Soviet Union, 
Graegorz Fitipowski, of Poland, 
and Petr Barna. of 
Czechoslovakia. 

Steven Cousins, aged 17. the 
British champion, who is no 
relation to his illustrious name¬ 
sake, is in fifteenth place, the 
humble position you might 
expect of him at his first 
appearance at this level. 
RESULTS: Mcn’m compulsory florae 1, 
R Zander (WG), (U pis: 2, V Petrenko 


Counts, 6.0. 

Women’s n and ln ge (alto original pro- 
grenwiie): 1. N Lebedeva lUSSRi 1.0 pts; 
2, E Grossmarm (EG). 32: 3, P Neste 
JWGL 4.4: 4. N Skrabnevskaya (USSR). 
S-«: 5. S Sons* (Ft). 62:8. M Kietmann 
(WG). 62. Brttito: 14, E Misdoeh. 116:23. 
ALaw. 2&4. 

Ptos orig in a l: 1, N Wshkutitm* end A 
Dmitriev (USSR). 05pts: 2, L Sotozn eva 
and O Makarov (USSR), 1.0: 3, Y 
Gordeyeis end SGnnlcov (USSR). 1.5; 4. 
P Sdwwz and a Koenig (EG). 2ih 5. R 
Kovarikove end R Novotny (Cr), 2.5; 8,1 
Mueller and I Stauer (EG).ao. British: 8. C 
Peaks end A Naylor, 4 Jr, 9, C Barker end 
M Akkad, 45. _ 

RUGBY LEAGUE 

Wigan are 
weakened 
by injuries 

The Stones Bitter Champ¬ 
ionship leaders, Wigan, are 
expected to face the champions, 
Widnes. on Saturday without 
five international players. 

Joe Lydon. Andy Gregory. 
Kevin Iro, and Adrian Shelford 
are all missing from the line-up 
named by the coach, John 
Monie, today and Steve 
Hampson is still suspended. 

Byrne lakes over at full back 
and Goulding comes in at scrum 
half to replace Gregory. Ed¬ 
wards switches to stand-off halt 
and the captain.Hanley, plays in 
the centre. 

Iro and Lydon were both 
injured in the Challenge Cup tie 
at Hull Kingston Rovers on 
Sunday and Monie rates both 
players as doubtful. 

TEAM: G Byrne; N Preston, O Bed. E 
Hatley. D Marshal 1 ; S Edwards. R 
OenAfcm, I Lucas, M DermotL A Ptatt, D 
Bens, I GBdflTL A Goodway. Su&K P 
Oariw and one to be named. 

• Warrington have placed 
David Myers, aged 18, on the ■ 
transfer list at his own request, 
only three months after signing 
him from their neighbours, 
Widnes. No fee has been set. 
“We will invite offers,” Ron 
Oose. the secretary, said. Mike 
McQennao, from New Zealand, 
the new manager of St Helens, 
will arrive on Saturday - in time 
to lake charge for ihe home 
match against Leeds on Sunday. 

Peter Williams, the former 
England rugby union stand-off 
halt is back in tbe Salford side 
at centre for tomorrow's bot- 
{om-of-the-table match against 
Barrow. Williams replaces 
Keiron Havard, with Steve 
Kerry on tbe wing for Andy 
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Weightlifting to The heavy weight of shame on 

be subjected 


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to official inquiry 


By Jobo Goodbody 


Asa second Welsh weightiifter 
was disqualified from the 
Commonwealth Games for 
doping, Colin Moynihan, the 
Minister for Sport, yesterday 
flew to Auckland, planning an 
inquiry into drug abuse. 

Moynihan. a notable fighter 
against the illegal use of drugs, 
wants the investigation as a 
follow-up to the inquiry that 
he and Sebastian Coe held in 
1987. It will concentrate on 
weightlifting, idler the disclo¬ 
sures or (tope-taking in die 
sport by The Tima last 
November and the spate of 
positive tests both before and 
after the Games. 

Britain now faces an inter¬ 
national ban from the sport 
for a year, because of the 
number of competitors who 
have tested positive within a 
12-month period. 

Moynihan, who is attending 
the Commonwealth Sports 
Ministers Conference on Sun¬ 
day. would like the Olympic 
l ,500 metres champion to join 
him in the investigation, 
which he had considered 
carrying out even before the 
revelations in New Zealand. 

Basil George, the Welsh 
deputy team manager, said 
that Gareth Hives, who won 
three silver medals in the 
100kg class, had become the 
second Welsh lifter to fail a 
drug test at the Games. 
Another Welshman, Ricky 
Chaplin, and Subrataknmar 
Paul, of India, have already 
been stripped of their weight¬ 
lifting medals after being 
tested positive. 

Moynihan said before leav¬ 
ing London: “I will continue 



Hives: stripped of merfah 
to press vigorously for ran¬ 
dom independent testing in 
and out of season and not just 
in competitions. This is the 
only way that cheating, 
through drag abuse, will be 
stamped out,” 

Meanwhile, Menzies Camp¬ 
bell, the Liberal-Democrat 
MP for North-East Hfe who is 
a former Commonwealth 
Games sprinter, again de¬ 
manded that the Government 
should move to make the 
possession of anabolic ste¬ 
roids, without a medical 
prescription, a criminal 
offence. 

He said: “How many in¬ 
cidents of this kind are nec¬ 
essary before the Government 
takes action?” Heisa sponsor¬ 
ing a Private Members Bill 
which is due for a second 
reading on March 2. His party 
yesterday tabled an early day 
motion, calling upon the Gov¬ 
ernment to “cease its 
procrastination”. 

The Sports Council had set 
up an inquiry into drug abuse 
in weigh tlifing after a request 
by the British Amateur 


Weightlifters Association 
(BAWLA) and yesterday 
Ossie Wheatley, the vice- 
chairman of the Welsh Sports 
Council, warned that financial 
support to the sport in the 
Principality could be 
withdrawn. 

He said: “The governing 
body will be called to account 
when they return from Auck¬ 
land. There is going to be a far- 
reaching inquiry into how and 
why two lifters took drugs and 
where they got the banned 
substances from.” 

The Welsh Sports Council 
has such a strong policy over 
drags that ft has refused to 
give giants to four governing 
bodies, which refused to co¬ 
operate with its testing pro¬ 
gramme. Last year, the 
Council tested 46 lifters in 
competition, including 12 
Welshman. Only one, an 
Irishman, was found positive, 
when he took part in an 
international event 

Because of lade of finance it 
could not afford out-of-com¬ 
petition testing. However, this 
will come in through the 
British Sports Council, which 
shortly mil cany out a new 
programme of out-of-com¬ 
petition sampling, with 
competitors being required to 
provide urine for analysis, 
with a maximum of only 48 
hours notice. 

Hives, aged 23, a steel¬ 
worker from Port Talbot, was 
sixth in the mid-heavyweight 
class at the 1986 Games before 


A shadow hannts the gym ort of which Wales predoced wetghrtiftiag gold in Aacktand: Boras, the owner and a gold medal winner himself. fears the worst 


A nation has its face slapped 


Paul’s job in jeopardy 


Calcutta (AFP) - Safant- 
taknamr Pan], who tested 
positive lor steroids in the 
Commonwealth Games after 
winning two silver medals and 
a bronze at w eigh tl iftin g, may 
lose bis job on the Indian 
railways. 

A railway spokesman said 
yesterday dial Paul might be 
suspended firms service until 
the department had investi¬ 


gated his conduct at the 
Games. His father, Sunil Paid, 
believes the* an Indian team¬ 
mate may have given M the 
pills. 

Subrafataunar has not con¬ 
tacted his family since leaving 
Auckland and, yesterday, the 

weightlifting federation presi¬ 
dent, Chaman lal Mehta, said 
End, aged 26, seemed to have 
disappeared. 


moving up to the heavier 
division. He was fourth in the 
1989 international Silver 
Dragon competition behind 
Nicu Vlad, of Romania, a 
descendant of Vlad the 
Impaler, who gave birth to the 
Dracula legend. 

In New Zealand yesterday 
George, said: “It is the biggest 
smack in the teeth we have 
ever had. 1 have never known 
a Commonwealth Games 
team that has been hit so rigid 
as this one. Unfortunately, 
two people, who want to put 
something down their throats 
or whatever they do with the 
drugs, have put a whole team 
in disrepute. But the team 
cannot be blamed as a whole.” 


By Owen Jenkins 


Embarrassment and shame gripped 
the world of Welsh weightlifting at the 
news that two of its medal-winners in 
Auckland hadfaited dreg tests. Bat 
there was little surprise among those 
at the grass-roots level of the sport. 

John Borns, who won weightlifting 
gold medals for Wales in the 
Co nun o M w ea th Games at Edmonton 
and Brisbane, said that anabolic 
steroids were readily avaSaMe even to 
youngst e rs just taking up the sport. 
Barns owns the gym In Swansea where 
David Morgan, who won three gold 
medals In AncHandand carried the 
national Qag in the opening ceremony, 
trains. 

On Suday, after his latest success, 
Morgan t hreat ened to retu r n his 


medals as a protest against the 
widespread nse of drags in the spent. 
Boras shares Morgan's feelings. 

“It was like a slap in the hoe when 
we heard (he news,” he said. “It had to 
come oat but it's come to a bead in the 
worst possible way. It is such a waste 
because the boys conid have done ft 
without the drugs. It’s put 
weaghtfiffing back a few years. YonYe 
not going to have the young people 
coming into a sport that has such a bad 
reputation. 

“People take drugs because it’s the 
only way they can catch op. They can 
pick up steroids in some high-street 
gyms and other sources. I know of five 
or six places in Swansea and the true 
figure is prahabtar double that. People 
phone me and ask if I supply steroid s . 
Suppliers have the dassic excuse that 


Champion 

condemns 


if they didn't do it, somebody rise 
would. It makes you wonder to what 
extent they would go. There is the 
temptation to move up to other things 
like hard drags." 

fen C an teth ers is an festxuctor at 
Burns’s gym. He admits that he was 
tempted to take drags when he 
competed. “I resisted because of 
concern for my health," be said. “I 
have personal knowledge of drag- 
takmg is other sports — mainly the 
TwHaff ones Hlr* judo, karate, even 
rugby. I know of people taking stuff 
designed for anfanab." 

And Bures noted raefelty that the 
two men who were caught were 
probably not the only ones using 
drugs. “They are getting caught 
becaase they’re coming off the drag 
too fete," be said. “A lot that have 


been dean might have been taking 
them. There’s a proportion eS about 20 
to 30 per cent at the top Games that 
use drags. I fieri that testing should be 
applied throughout the year on a 
random basis 

“In my view, there are three options 
open tn the Sports CowocO and fee 
British Olympic A ssociatio n . First, 
they can ban weightlifting from the 
Olympic and Commonwealth Games. 
Second, they should try to emulate fee 
Australian Spurts Institute, where 
squad training takes place wife medi¬ 
cal back-up facilities for injuries 
sustained because of such high- 
intensity training. And third, the 
Government should give more tax 
concessions for major fongwHies to 
encourage fees to adopt and sponsor 
an Olympic sport," 


lifters 


Tactics missing in Dead champion tribute 
Tau’s double first 


Lynn Davies, the Welsh sport¬ 
ing hero who won a long jump 
gold medal at the Tokyo 
Olympics, was at the forefront 
of the nation’s condemnation 
of the two disgraced weight- 
lifters yesterday. 

Davies, in Auckland as a 
television commentator, said: 
“There are no excuses for it, 
because at the end of the day it 
is cheating. It’s a sad day for 
Welsh sport. 

"The Welsh team can’t 
believe anyone could have 
been so silly as to risk taking 
drugs, especially after the 
Seoul Olympics when the 
whole Bulgarian weightlifting 
team was sent home. 

“1 think it’s absolutely right 
that they are banned because 
the only way to fight drug 
taking is to impose very, very 
severe penalties." 


From David Rhys Jones, Auckland 


Geua Tau won Papua New 
Guinea’s first Commonwealth 
Games grid medal — and the 
first bowls medal — when her 
uncomplicated approach took 
her to a 25-18 win over Millie 
Khan, of New Zealand, in the 
womens singles final Tactics 
did not concern her. she 
simply drew close to the jack 
at every opportunity. 

Trailing 9-10 after 14 ends, 
Tau sneaked ahead 13-11 after 
17. The next two ends tipped 
the scales m Tau’s favour, 
counts of three and four 
setting her finnly on the road 
to victory. 

United Kingdom players 
have not been able to exert 
any authority on the 
championships, and tomor¬ 
row’s pairs final features 
Australia and Canada, with 


New Zealand and Wales 
contesting' the bronze medal 
playoff 

England. Scotland and 
Northern Ireland, however, 
are eager to redress the bal¬ 
ance in the men's fours, and 
are all pressing for a place in 
the final on Friday, while 
England, Scotland and Wales 
remain in contention in sec¬ 
tion A of fee women’s fours. 


The proceedings at 
Pakuranga were over¬ 
shadowed by fee death ofa 10- 
week-old boy. who was found 
to have stopped breathing on 
arrival at the venue after 
travelling to Auckland from 
Whangerei with his mother. 

The boy’s grandmother, was 
Millie Khan, the New Zealand 
singles representative. 


Auckland (Reuter) — Friends 
of Victor Davis, the late 
Olympic swimming cham¬ 
pion, flew his ashes from 
Canada to the Common¬ 
wealth Games to scatter them 
on the waters of the Pacific in 
a dawn ceremony yesterday. 

Team mates sprinkled wat¬ 
er from fee Los Angeles 
Olympic pool, where Davis 
won a gold medal, over the 
waves in tribute to the Ca¬ 
nadian swimmer who died last 
November, two days after 
being hit by a car. 

“It was the wish of his 
family to return his ashes to 
fee waters off here where he 
won his first international 
success,” Davis’s friend, Dave 
Stubbs, said. 

Stubbs, a Montreal journal¬ 
ist and former Canadian team 
official, carried fee ashes in a 
plastic box to New Zealand, 
where Davis, twice world 
breaststroke champion, won 


his first major race in 1981. 

Davis’s aunt, Anne 
McMurray, flew to Auckland 
from her home in Perth, 
Australia, to attend fee 
ceremony. 

Stubbs, who gave the eulogy 
at fee 25-year-old Davis's 
funeral, said a local Maori 
tribe had given feeir blessing 
for the service. A Catholic 


Games reports and 
results, page 42 


priest was among the nine 
people on the boat. 

Swimmer Tom Pouting and 
diver Dave Bedard, both nat¬ 
ional team members with 
Davis, threw fee bouquets 
awarded to them as medal 
winners from fee boat 


Adrian Moorhousc, of Eng¬ 
land. who was beaten by 
Davis in fee 100 metres 
breaststroke final at the 1986 


Commonwealth Games, was 
also on board. 

Stubbs said Davis’s parents, 
Mel Davis and Leona Haynes, 
had suggested fee ceremony. 

“They knew that Victor 
loved this pan of the world 
and they knew of his success 
down here." he said. “They 
and Victor’s girlfriend were 
setting aside some quiet time 
at the same time as fee 
service." 

At Stubbs's request a con¬ 
tainer was filled wife water 
from tone four at fee Univer¬ 
sity of Southern California 
pool where Davis won his 
Olympic title. 

The only hitch to the care¬ 
fully prepared plan came 
when Stubbs was slopped fora 
customs inspection at Los 
Angeles on his way to New 
Zealand. But he was allowed 
to carry the ashes on to his 
plane after producing the 
cremation documents. 


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Peking (Reuter) — Chinese 
athletes are using steroids and 
cheating because a drive to 
win medals has overcome an 
earlier emphasis on fair play, 
an official newspaper said 
yesterday. 

In a report headlined 
“China joins in war against 
cheating” fee China Daily 
said the use of steroids had 
increased in recent years. 

“Once the enthusiastic 
initiator of fee slogan ’friend¬ 
ship first, competition sec¬ 
ond’, the Chinese, since the 
late 1970s, have put more 
emphasis on competition in 
order to win medals in domes¬ 
tic and international tour¬ 
naments ” the report read. 

The Sports Minister, Wu 
Shaozu. disclosed at last year's 
national youth games that 
Chinese athletes had used 
steroids — banned muscle¬ 


building drugs wife poten¬ 
tially serious side-effects — 
and said users would be 
punished, it added. 

It called for more openness 
in China about drag abuse in 
sportThe newspaper did not 
name any athletes caught us¬ 
ing steriods, but referred to a 
report from a drug-testing 
centre in Tokyo which said a 
urine sample from a Chinese 
gold medal winner at tost 
year’s Asian track and field 
championships in Delhi, 
tested positive. 

It also recounted how al¬ 
most all records at a national 
university meeting in China 
two years ago were broken 
because colleges had entered 
full-time athletes, not 
students. 

“If others can cheat, why 
can’t we?” an unnamed sports 
official was quoted as saying. 


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Miami (AP) — The United 
States will play their first 
match against East Germany 
on March 28 in the Jahn 
Stadium, in East Berlin, the 
United States Football 
Federation (USFF) said 
yesterday. 

The United States added 
their eighth warm-up game for 
fee World Cup finals when 
they agreed to play Iceland. 

“Although we had other 
possibilities for opponents, 
the opportunity to play in East 
Berlin was one we could not 
pass up, given fee recent 
developments in Eastern 
Europe." Sunil Gulati. the 
chairman of the USSF*s inter¬ 
national games committee, 
said. 

March 23 will be a busy day 
for European football. Seven 
other matches are are sched¬ 
uled: The Netherlands play in 
fee Soviet Union, Brazil play 
England at Wembley. Austria 
are in Spain, Wales in fee 
Republic of Ireland and 
France in Hungary. 

The United States have not 
played since fee 1-0 victory at 
Trinidad and Tobago on 
November 19 which sent 
them through to the finals, 
and open their 1990 schedule 
to morrow in fee Marlboro 
Cup of Miami. 

The United States ptoy 

Costa Rica tomorrow and 

either Uruguay or Colombia 
on Sunday. They then play at 
Bermuda on February 13 and 
come home to play the Soviet 
Union on February 24 at 

Stanford, California. 


Rome (AFP) — Fears about 
the safety cf fee grounds on 
which Italy wifi stage fee 
World Cup finals emerged 
yesterday. Work on some of 
them is drastically behind 
schedule because of bureau¬ 
cratic hold-ups and political 
wrangling. Organizing 
committees from many of the 
12 centres made their fcara 
public after the deaths of nine 
site workers at the grounds. 

Five workmen have been 
killed at Palermo, two ai 


Genoa and one each at Turin 
and Bologna since last 
September. 


Part of the stadium col¬ 
lapsed at Palermo, killing the 
five, most of the other deaths 
have been caused by tolls and 
the collapse of cranes. 

Work is behind schedule at 
Rome, Naples and Palermo, 
which has forced contractors 
to speed up operations. 
Organizing committees said 
this was often leading to 


precarious conditions on the 
construction sites. 

The Italian grounds arc now 
just two months from the final 
inspection by FIFA, football’s 
international governing body 
The mayor of Rome, Franco 
Garraro. a former Italian 
Olympic Committee chair¬ 
man and minister for sport, 
said stricter checks would 
have to be carried out and 
some slowing of the work 
ordered to avoid new 
accidents. 


SPORT.IN BRIEF 


Hadlee to 
return 


Wellington (AFP) — Richard 
H3dlee. fee New Zealand 
cricketer, has been added to 
the party to play India in fee 
first Test match in Christ¬ 
church starting tomorrow. 
Hadlee, who is four wickets 
short of becoming the first 
bowler to take 400 Test wick¬ 
ets. has been recovering from 
surgery on an Achilles tendon. 



Hosts Sale 


Sale Harriers, the defending 
champions in fee European 
women's junior athletics 
championships, are to stage 
this year's event at 
Wythenshawc Park. 

Manchester, on September 22. 
The dub are to meet the 
£25,000 bill to cover costs. 


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Hadlee: back In business 


Notice to quit 


Hadlee, who replaces the 
injured Willie Watson, has 
been included despite his 
comeback consisting of just 
three limited-over dub games. 


Backing up 


Benson and Hedges is to 
sponsor a snooker tournament 
for players outside fee top 16 
from January next year. 


Oldham rugby league club, 
has served notice to quit on 
the town's greyhound sta¬ 
dium. Oldham greyhounds 
rents fee land off the rugby 
club on a 20-year lease which 
expires in August 


Halpin out 


Interview date 


Gary Halpin, Ireland's .. 
placemen! prop for Saturdays 
rugby union international 
against Scotland in Dublin, 
has been forced to drop out of 
fee squad wife food poison¬ 
ing. 


Silvino Francisco, fee South 
African snooker player who 
has been helping police with 
feeir inquiries into alleged 
betting irregularities over 
matches, has been told that he 
will not be interviewed again 
until early March. 


Accra (Reuter) — Ghana has 
protested to fee World Boxing 
Council over the decision to 
award fee world super-fly- 
wcighl title to Moon Sung-fcii. 
of South Korea, after his bout 
earlier this month with Nana 
Konadu. of Ghana, fee holder, 
was stopped. 


Reversal by ACO 
on Le Mans race 


By John Blunsden 

The Automobile Club de saved the worid's most sjgnifi- 
L Qu est (ACO) have been cant endurance race, subject 
forced to reverse yesterday’s to fee FISA circuit inspection 
announcement that fee Lc team being satisfied feat the 
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would take place on June 16 
and 17. Yesterday, the ACO 
lost its long running battle 
wife FISA, which announced 
the race’s cancellation after 
fee organizing dub had failed 
to apologize publicly for what 
fee governing body refers to as 
“a campaign of defamation" 
against it 

This was a reference to fee 
ACO’s contention feat FISA 
was. more interested in fee 
race's commercial rights than 
wife fee safety aspects and 
feat fee issue of fee seven 
kilometre Mulsanne straight, 
which had been introduced bv 
FISA at a late stage in fee 
dispute, was a smokescreen 
aimed at hiding the real issue. 
Last year, the Le Mans race 
was removed from the world 
championship calendar after 
fee failure of fee ACO and 
FISA to reach agreement over 
television and other cornmcr- 
cial rights. 

Earlier this week fee ACO 
announced that two chicanes 
were to be inserted info fee 


in hand. However, in yes¬ 
terday's statement,. FISA 
described an announcement 
by fee ACO on Tuesday, that 
fee race would fake place, as 
false and that no serious 
guarantees had been given by 
the ACO feat fee necessary 
chicanes would be built. 

There has been a history of 
conflict between fee two bod¬ 
ies, and their failure to resolve 
feeir differences, whether they 
revolve around safety, money 
or merely egos, is another 
serious sear on fee already 
tarnished image of motor 
racing. 

It is a particularly bitter 
blow for those teams for 
whom fee atmn»i appearance 
at Le Mans and fee promo¬ 
tional value they derive from 
it. is central to feeir support of 
endurance racing and fee jus¬ 
tification for fee huge finan¬ 
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feeir total racing programme. 






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